Trump talks up taking Greenland — and suddenly impeachment language is being used before anything has even happened. Right, so Donald Trump has started talking again about the United States taking Greenland, and he’s doing it without threatening war. No troops, no orders, no plan — just the idea, put back on the table. The immediate cost is this: the thing people normally rely on to stop presidents doesn’t activate. There’s no war powers vote. No court case. No switch Congress can flip to make it stop. And that’s the problem. Because once force is ruled out, the system everyone assumes will step in doesn’t actually have a way to intervene. So instead of law, you’re left with hope. Hope that he drops it. Hope that it blows over. Hope that nothing follows from saying it out loud. And once you’re relying on hope instead of rules, the confidence people keep selling you about how American power is restrained doesn’t hold up anymore. Right, so Donald Trump is still on about the United States acquiring Greenland. He has done it in that way that he usually does when he wants leverage without committing himself. He presents it as strategically necessary, treats objections as noise, and yet since he started banging on about this, is now insisting that he does not intend to use military force. That is where we are at this point. There are no troops moving. There are no orders. There is no plan on paper. What has happened is that Greenland has been reintroduced into serious public discussion as something the United States might pursue, paired with a verbal assurance that nothing violent is intended. Inside the United States, the response has been immediate and unusually severe compared to what has actually occurred. Constitutional lawyers, former officials, and political actors who normally avoid emergency language have gone straight to talking about impeachment and constitutional crisis territory, even though there is no action yet for the system to respond to. Donald Trump's renewed interest in the United States acquiring Greenland, without threats of war or concrete plans, presents a unique challenge to established political norms. This discussion highlights how the lack of overt force means traditional checks and balances on the executive branch, like war powers votes or court cases, are not activated. This situation raises important questions about geopolitics and the limits of political intervention when proposals are made outside conventional frameworks.