🚨 Greenland Opens A Second Front in Global War on Democracy

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1. 🌍 WAR ON DEMOCRACY GOES GLOBAL

Trump hits Denmark and seven European allies with 10% tariffs Saturday, threatens 25% by June unless they surrender Greenland. Despite all the Nobel Prize protestations from bipartisan congressional delegations, make no mistake - this opens the SECOND front in the war on democracy. Ukraine was first. Greenland instantly puts America in conflict with Canada and Europe, and this is not Chamberlain’s Europe of appeasement. Russia lines up with US and gets America out of Ukraine. China will try for Taiwan. The autocrats are making rewriting the new world order. Last week we assessed the United States had crossed into contested democracy. This week the practical realities arrive.

2. 💥 INSURRECTION DAY

Pentagon orders 1,500 active-duty soldiers on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis tonight as Trump threatens Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters. This is stage one of city militarization - everything that follows in a wannabe dictatorship flows from this moment. Rigged elections come next when opposition leaders can’t run because they are under investigation, further protests become the regime’s justification for more force.

America’s opposition should study the French Resistance instead of street protests - because demonstrations now play directly into authoritarian hands. When peaceful assembly becomes evidence of “insurrection” requiring military response, the regime has already shifted the rules. Quiet, unnoticed resistance inside institutions may be the only path forward.

Malcolm Nance notes the “deployment” of force to Minnesota could be a decoy maneuver designed to put two Arctic-trained battalions— 1,500 members of the 11th Airborne Division— on alert for deployment to Greenland.

3. 🏛️ TRUMP INVITES PUTIN, ORBAN TO BOARD OF PEACE

Trump invites Vladimir Putin to the “Board of Peace” - Trump chairs it for life and $1 billion buys wealthy countries a permanent membership. Hungary’s Orban already accepted. Carney is considering. This is technocratic colonialism rebranded. Small nations no longer get democratic rights - they get overlords assigned by the board. Gaza first, then Ukraine, then whoever’s next. The language matters: “technocratic state” means efficient authoritarian rule without messy democracy. Pay a billion dollars, get permanent say over other people’s countries. This is colonialism with a peace logo. Putin on the peace board while waging war in Ukraine. The board “could rival the UN Security Council” - meaning it replaces international law with Trump’s lifetime chairmanship and whoever ponies up the cash.

4. ⚖️ DOJ GUTTING CONTINUES

Systematic dismantling of professional prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated Trump, with Public Integrity Section reduced from 36 career lawyers to two. Another example of the resistance theme - losing prosecutors on principle may not be the way to go. We need to keep resistance inside our institutions, quiet and unnoticed, not spectacular resignations that feed the purge.

5. 📂 EPSTEIN FILES BLOCKED

Trump DOJ secretly files motion Friday to prevent release of remaining Maxwell grand jury documents, blocking independent monitor requested by Reps. Khanna and Massie. The filing follows revelations that Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen concealed information about Trump and Epstein. Cohen appears to working towards a pardon by claiming his testimony against Trump was coerced.

6. 🚊 SPAIN TRAIN DISASTER

39 dead, 152 injured after high-speed derailment near Córdoba. Cause unknown on recently renovated track with near-new train.

🎯 THE PATTERN

What connects federal troops on standby for American cities, tariffs weaponized against NATO allies, a “peace board” that assigns colonial overlords to small nations, systematic purges of justice officials, and sealed evidence of systematic abuse? The transition from contested democracy to practical dictatorship. Minnesota shows us the domestic playbook. Greenland reveals the global conflict opening. The Board of Peace exposes the technocratic colonialism - pay a billion, chair it for life, assign overlords to Gaza and whoever’s next. DOJ gutting proves institutions won’t save us without people inside willing to resist quietly. We crossed the line last week. This week we live in what comes after.

📖 THE GREATEST HEIST

The Trump-Epstein espionage network and the greatest heist in history. This is Narativ’s original serialized investigation powered the a proprietary independent AI database of Epstein-related documents of well over 100,000 documents,

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