Right now, we're all fixated on Donald Trump's plans for a conquest of Greenland and how NATO has promised military retribution in exchange for an American invasion of Dutch territory. The media isn't helping very much, because for all his other faults, Trump is a news-manufacturing service. Whenever anyone is dumb enough to put a microphone in front of him, he creates 20 new stories in the space of a few minutes.
The technical term for this is smokescreening. Trump is incredibly good at this. In order to distract from a large injustice, a larger smokescreen must be blown; and right now, there are 5 ongoing injustices that I can think of offhand, each one requiring a monumental smokescreen.
First, let's start with the most recent at the time of writing— Immigration agents killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, mere hours after Trump's homeland security announced the deployment of a 2000-strong force to that city in a crackdown on "illegal immigration". Agents fired 3 shots into the cabin of an SUV travelling through a residential area, 2 of which struck the driver. The sanitation efforts are already underway on large video sharing platforms and social networks, but fortunately I know of several archivists who have already saved all relevant videos of the event. This is the 5th such death at the hands of ICE, who are now operating without oversight or scrutiny of any kind except from private citizens with cameras. Agents now appear in public wearing dark or reflective sunglasses, black bandannas over their faces and long-sleeve shirts to cover any tattoos or other personally-identifying markings on their arms.
Next, there is the matter of the United States Armed Forces banning transgender people from being soldiers and re-evaluating the role of cisgender women in the military. Sure, it's easy to say "well, who the hell would be dumb enough to join the military anyway?" and then leave it at that, but many private-sector businesses and other government agencies use the military as a model for how to operate. Excluding trans people and cis women from the fighting forces is all the justification some managers need to expel all their transgender and cis female employees. It also fosters abuse against trans and cis female soldiers within the Armed Forces themselves and will compromise their veteran benefits and insurance. Like it or not, soldiers are people too; it's just their brains got a little switch flipped off by constant verbal and physical abuse during boot camp, or indoctrination at the academy.
Next, it has become somewhat common knowledge that Donald Trump and several other high-profile conservative (and liberal) politicians and far-right influencers were in the Rolodex of the most widely-known human trafficker in the world, Jeffrey Epstein; and that the regime is doing all that it can to block the flow of that information into congressional committees. Presently, the regime is chafing over the fact that the redactions were done hurriedly, possibly with the assistance of ChatGPT, and were published in PDF form where the redaction had not been flattened onto the document properly; much of the redacted information was able to be retrieved by a code-level examination. Furthermore, if ChatGPT was involved, it logically follows that the models were trained on the contents of the Epstein files and, given the right command, the files could be duplicated by anyone.
Then, there's the matter of the military incursion into Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolas Maduro. Whether or not Maduro was liked or even lawfully elected is not relevant at the moment; what is relevant is that the United States Army, at the command of Donald Trump, executed a military strike on Venezuelan soil and then invaded the country to remove its leader. Sounds a lot like what the CIA used to do, doesn't it? Except this time, it wasn't done secretly; it was a brazen statement of American military authority, and for what? Trump's people tried to keep the mask on and claimed that it was because Maduro was a drug trafficker and therefore had to answer to charges in an American court. However, Trump himself blundered the mask off again and, without any prompting, admitted that it was so the US could take control of Venezuela's oil. The new Venezuelan president, Delcy Rodriguez, seems pretty keen to sign off on that, suggesting that the country is now under the control of an American puppet government.
Finally, there's the revelation that Venezuelan immigrants have been sent to CECOT in droves simply because they were Venezuelan. A 60 Minutes story detailed how US border agents systematically exclude Venezuelans from lawful entrance into the country, considering nothing else except their country of origin and whether they have any tattoos. It further detailed American fascist attempts to convince supporters that CECOT is an effective facility for detaining gang members (consistently referred to as "terrorists" or "monsters" by regime officials throughout the piece) and that unspecified numbers of gang members have been justly incarcerated there, while counting on ignorance and racism to back them up; in fact there was no evidence presented that showed the US deported any MS-13 members at all, instead showing principally innocent Venezuelans and Hondurans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, CBS's new president, hand-picked by the Trump regime, killed the story.
In order to obscure such dramatic and unprecedented injustices, the Trump regime has decided to pick a fight with NATO by threatening to take over Greenland. "Denmark insisting the US leave NATO" is a much easier story to report (and a more compelling story to create hate engagement) than "CBS boss nukes 60 Minutes episode over CECOT segment", or "Administration flustered over Epstein PDF with transparent redactions", or "ICE acts with impunity to install agents as judge, jury, and executioner". It's literally no different than when Trump was picking a fight with Canada to obscure the fact that republican judges were declaring his National Guard and Marines deployments illegal.
See what the regime doesn't want you to see. Sometimes, you'll need to dig through mounds of irrelevant news to find it, but you need to see it.