How would we react if a foreign country kidnapped Trump?

[Ocelot II]

Would we be happy that he was gone or outraged that a foreign military force abducted our president? Let's say Trump actually did invade Greenland to attempt to seize it for the US. Denmark invokes NATO Article 5 and a coalition of NATO countries manages to do what the US did wrt Maduro in Venezuela? What would we do?

[leftstreet]

1. A strongly worded letter, after the celebrations n/t

[ret5hd]

2. "No give-backs!!!"

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Who's "we?"

Half the country would be celebrating, half the country would be out for blood.

The government would be bombing the fuck out of people with full support from Congress.

[Ocelot II]

22. "We" could mean either us right here on DU, or the country as a whole.

Including myself as part of the first "we" I'd be happy to see his fat orange ass hauled away. I'm sure there are plenty of Venezuelans who are glad Maduro is gone, too. The official national response certainly would be something else entirely, though Shady Vance probably would be secretly delighted to have his chance to be the tough guy who can fist-bump with Kegbreath.

[electric_blue68]

35. 🤔 It really isn't "half the country". More like 35ish % with ?10% of that being violence prone.

imho 👍

[mr715]

4. Who is we?

I mean, if, say, I don't know... some EU nation deployed their intelligence agents and kidnapped him for trial at the Hague, I'd be pretty happy.

As a nation? I think we'd be pretty upset. 100 million people or so

But the idea of him getting taken away? Made me happy. I also wanted that to happen to the Cheneys (all of them), the Bushes, Kissinger, Wolfowitz (who is still around I think at the World Bank)...

[jaymac]

5. breathe a sigh

of relief?
but we'd still have his minions...........could we politely ask the coalition to take a whole bunch of them?????

[BannonsLiver]

6. I'd be whistling zippity doo dah out of my arse.

[Ohioboy]

8. I think most would not be happy

Even thought I don't like Trump's behavior and policies, I still would not like to have another country do what we did to Venezuela.

[flvegan]

9. Realistically? Watch fecklessly as Hegseth's Dept of War bombed said

foreign country back to the stone age, regardless of who it was.

[Torchlight]

10. I'd assume it's Putin just giving him

the agreed-upon escape and dacha in Yakut. If a western European nation did it, I'd (all other things being equal) watch the process play out with curiosity.

[EdmondDantes_]

11. Not or, and

I'd be happy and angry. Sometimes a bad action can result in good, although I suspect it would backfire and increase support for MAGA. I can likewise think Trump ordering Maduro's arrest and removal as a bad thing and be happy a dictator is removed. That happiness is tempered both by the means and very low confidence that it will benefit the Venezuelans or the world.

[electric_blue68]

36. One can hold more than one pov, even conflicting ones

[JI7]

12. I would be happy or not care.

[2naSalit]

13. I would make them...

Promise not to send him back. It would be a positive move for everyone on the planet. Maduro had little impact on the global stage, this would be different in that it would benefit all life on the planet and, therefore, acceptable...even if they dropped him in the ocean on the way to his prison cell.

[AZJonnie]

14. In that particular set of circumstances, I would be far from outraged personally

However what you describe would be a much better justification than the one(s) given by the Marmalade Shartcannon for kidnapping Maduro, done by multiple countries acting in alliance, pursuant to their joint defence treaties.

If it were done by, say, Iran, I think I'd be pissed, even though generally I want Trump removed from office, that is not the proper means.

I can't really speak for 'we' however, given the lack of specificity regarding who "we" are, in the context of the initial query

[Ocelot II]

23. Certainly Denmark and NATO would have a far better justification for doing it

than Trump had for abducting Maduro.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

15. 🥂🥳

🥳🥳🥳🥂🥂🥂

[ZDU]

16. Joyous!

Definitely JOYOUS

[Aristus]

17. Well, I still have that bottle of Taittinger's in my fridge...

n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

18. "How would we react if a foreign country kidnapped Trump?"

Unalloyed jubilation...

So, maybe that's not a good comparison to Venezuela.

[Raven123]

19. Both.

[walkingman]

20. The US would never accept Article 5 against itself (questionable these days

if the US would accept it even today unless we agree), likely say that what we are doing is vital to our national security, and deny, deny, deny any culpability. This most devastating thing would be internal, not external. Would Congress authorize war? Withdraw from NATO? Would the troops follow orders that clearly violate international law?

IMO, we would see "state level" resistance based on political support and I suspect the end of our so-called "United States". I think that history shows (although we have a very short history) that the US never...ever, admits it's mistakes. We don't even allow the history of our atrocities to be taught these days.

BOTTOM LINE - unless we impeach this lunatic we have running our country we are setting ourselves up for some bad shit.

[sakabatou]

21. Happy that he'd be gone, scared how the US would retaliate

[Buckeyeblue]

24. Anyone that would kidnap Trump would quickly give him back

It would be short term reprive. And then he would come back and brag about how he saved himself.

[Ocelot II]

26. Like the O'Henry story, "The Ransom of Red Chief."

It's a short story about a couple of criminals who kidnap a rich man's young son for ransom, only to discover that the kid is a holy terror, and they end up having to pay the father to take him back. https://classicshorts.com/stories/redchief.html

[SheltieLover]

32. ...

[electric_blue68]

37. Oh! Lol

[sinkingfeeling]

25. First applause and then a big party.

[Tree Lady]

27. Considering who would be in charge

With him gone, we would be watching the circus start daily as all his minions fight over what to do.

Vance would pretend to try and get him back, but then make sure it never happened so he could stay being president. He would issue threats then say for the good of the country we aren’t going to war….

[Rebl2]

28. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[get the red out]

29. After the past year?

No country on this planet is going to do the US favor like that!

[mike_c]

30. celebration, parties, pay them to never send him back

Trump WHO? Never heard of him.

[usedtobedemgurl]

43. Wasn't he the cofveevee boy? Lol

[SheltieLover]

31. Nominate them collectively for the biggest Nobel Peace Prize ever?

[NoRethugFriends]

33. You even have to ask?

[Jim__]

34. Hopefully, we'd refuse to pay the ransom.

[Wicked Blue]

38. We'll party till we collapse

[gAI Obsession]

39. With glee and tears in our eyes.

[Buns_of_Fire]

40. It wouldn't do to make a habit of it.

In that specific case, though, I forgive them in advance - so long as they don't try to give him back.

[Johonny]

41. Who? Never heard of the guy. Low level staffer

Just got coffee.

[nilram]

42. I'm not happy with the instability in the world system right now

and, given that they'd probably have to use a lot more force to get TSF, I'd probably be pretty frightened.

I'm just going to send him some gift cards to McDonalds and hope that does the trick.

[Mysterian]

44. Do you accept Visa / Mastercard?

Bitcoin?

[eppur_se_muova]

45. TRY IT AND FIND OUT !!!! nt