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Trump's Gambit

Trump's Greenland Gambit - GIS Dossiers
 

He leaves NATO, the pact undone,
No ally left to block his run.
Article 5 is cast aside,
No aid, no help, no place to hide.

Greenland waits, a prize to claim,
No resistance, none to blame.
Courts grow silent, power reigns,
No law to stop him, no remains.

Congress bows, the path is clear,
No dissent, no foe is near.
The Constitution torn apart,
A kingdom built from iron heart.

Putin smiles, the deal is struck,
A world divided, none dare buck.
One claims north, the other east,
Two tyrants feast, their power increased.

Canada falls, its fate is sealed,
Panama breaks, its strength repealed.
Europe split, the borders drawn,
No force remains to face the dawn.

Who will rise? Who dares to stand?
When might alone commands the land.
The trap is sprung, the game is played—
Submit, obey, or be enslaved.

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Comments

Rolph David

Sat 22nd Mar 2025 06:37

I thank Tom Merton, Naomi, Yanma Hidayah, Flyntland, K.Lynn, Stephen W. Atkinson, Stephen Gospage, hugh, Graham Sherwood and Red Brick Keshner for their kind appraisal. It's balm for the soul. Have a nice weekend.
Cheers,
Rolph

Rolph David

Sat 22nd Mar 2025 06:27

Good morning Tom,
Thank you very much for your words, which I greatly appreciate. What has been brewing in our world for some time now is certainly unrivalled. As we all know, there is always an escalation of what has already happened. Instead of learning from the past, people are feeding on violence, war and chaos, feasting on the pain and suffering of their species and risking its extinction. It's all just sick. Homo homini lupus est! Non est pulchrum lupo.
Have a nice weekend,
kind regards,
Rolph

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TOM MERTON

Fri 21st Mar 2025 20:17

Not into politics as such Rolph, although I am aware of what is and isn't going on by keeping up with the headlines, but your poem brilliantly encapsulates the crazy situation. Thank you Sir!

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