While mainstream media is talking about potential invasions of Greenland and Panama, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making advancements in their real war effort, according to a columnist's analysis.
National opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch, is no stranger to issues related to the president-elect.
Bunch Sunday published an opinion piece in which he argues we should "forget Greenland" and Panama.
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"In a world where the news doesn’t stop getting more bat-guano crazy just because it’s Christmas, where a phony war between the United States and Denmark consumes more electrons than the heartbreakingly real ones in Gaza and Ukraine, you might have missed a major escalation in the world conflict that matters most," Bunch writes. "The unrelenting and wildly successful war on facts, also known as truth."
Bunch goes on to call out specific news outlets he says are missing the bigger picture.
"This significant surrender on the war against propaganda, and the campaign against a holdout pocket of resistance in Wikipedia, got scant attention in a mainstream media that was decimated both morally and economically over the course of 2024. Instead, the scribes at the New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere were on the scavenger hunt for a new batch of shiny objects planted by the nominal president-elect: wild threats to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland and maybe even Canada," the piece states. "Forget Greenland. My strong — and maybe naive? — hunch is that Denmark’s vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory won’t prove to be 2025’s Sudetenland, but Trump’s blustery and out-of-left-field pitch for American lebensraum is important as the leading edge of Team MAGA’s real World War III — against any consensus on objective truth."
He then adds, "The tactical goals for Musk (lower taxes, the end of government regulations, preferential deals with the U.S. government, and — yes, Bond fans — global domination) and for Trump (disappearing his criminal cases while monetizing the American presidency) are very much in sight. Their strategy for getting there — the real WWIII that doesn’t involve storming Panama — is the nuclear demolition of objective reality."