That’s right. And Luca Brasi wasn’t threatening the band leader when he put the gun to his head. There’s a lot of reasons he could have been holding the gun like that— maybe he didn’t have his reading glasses and he was trying to read the serial number? Maybe he was comparing the the band leader’s hair sheen to a known reference gun? If the band leader then ‘decided’ to sign the contract to let Johnny Fontaine leave, it certainly wouldn’t be intentionally coercive.

To be fair Luca Brazil did explicitly assure the bandleader that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract before he left.

So that’s kind of a threat.

He was clearly inviting him to either add his signature, or a brain dump of possible changes to the agreement. Case closed.

> was never a threat

> it wasnt a threat of force

How are you not seeing yourself moving the goal post here?

Because they were never moved. What action has taken place? This is 100% anxiety.

Yes, of course it's anxiety, because you have one island with a tiny population listening to a leader of a huge military power saying "We'll get Greenland one way or another". Is it surprising people are feeling anxious when what they thought was a military partner starts to threaten other partners? Do you not realize how that is perceived by others?

How about stop listening? Or maybe try to understand the actual intention here?

Parent initially said:

> The offer to buy Greenland from Denmark was never a threat

Then afterwards said:

> No it wasnt a threat of force

How is that not moving the goal post? They realize they cannot argue for "it wasn't a threat" anymore so they now started arguing it wasn't a "threat of force" instead. Completely missing the point why countries suddenly feel it's necessary to setup defenses in case an ally decide to take "military action" against them.

No the parent initially said:

"You know the U.S. has operational military bases on Greenland soil and Denmark was a founding member of NATO and remains an active member, right? The offer to buy Greenland from Denmark was never a threat. It was an offer. The U.S. has made similar territorial purchases in the past, including most famously from our oldest ally the French known as the Lousiana Purchase."

The offer to buy Greenland wasn't a threat.

Greenland isn't setting up defenses against the U.S. Denmark and Greenland are part of NATO and run mutual defense exercises regularly. NORAD runs out of Greenland. There is no threat by the United States to Greenland. The U.S. already runs a military base there and has had several other shuttered ones in the past.

There are threats to Greenland from external actors besides the U.S. including especially Russia that is directly across the Arctic. That's why NORAD runs intercontinental missile detection in Greenland.

There is an offer to Greenland and to Denmark, that if Greenland takes it, would mean Greenland would get billions of dollars in funding and economic boosts to their economy, in addition to even stronger guarantees of defense. If the mutual relationship with the U.S. is not desired, then U.S. can always walk. That's not a threat, that's called mutual exchange. If someone wants a divorce, accepting it and walking away isn't a threat.

That is not what "military action" means.