For any American who might read this, consider how insane this scenario would be:

Concerned about growing United States belligerence toward their countries, Canadian and Danish officials meet in secret at their land border on Hans Island. (The Danes bring schnapps; the Canadians bring Canadian Club whisky.)

They agree that due to the repeated threats to violate their countries’ territorial sovereignty, between 51st state threats toward Canada and demands to annex Greenland toward Denmark, it is a foreign policy imperative for both countries that the current regime in the United States be decapitated, and they plan an audacious raid on Washington, DC with the aim of capturing the warmongering President of the United States, Donald John Trump.

The raid is executed some time later and goes off essentially without a hitch, overwhelming security at the White House and getting away with Donald Trump and his wife Melania captive, and the couple are flown to a secure purpose-built facility as an extension of the prison in Mjørkadalur.

The raid is executed with no warning given to the Parliament of Canada or the Folketing; it later emerges that both the CBC and DR caught wind of the raid, but remained quiet about it.

After the raid, officials from both countries announce that the Trumps will be charged with various violations of law and tried in Canadian and Danish courts; among the charges are ones that are purely domestic to Canada or Denmark and not part of the law of the United States, and others are specious at best, such as a charge for the purported appointment of Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland without accreditation to His Majesty Frederik X. They also point out that Donald Trump was not legitimately President of the United States anyway, because he is plainly ineligible to hold office in that country under the terms of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

It is unclear who is in charge in the United States following the strike. Vice President Vance is the obvious successor, but concerns are raised about his legitimacy to hold office given Trump’s ineligibility, and there is no other obvious choice.

International response is mixed and tepid; concerns are raised about foreign countries purporting to determine who may exercise executive authority in the United States, but at the same time the concerns of Canada and Denmark regarding Trump’s belligerence are acknowledged as legitimate and a valid inciting factor for the raid.

It also emerges after the raid that the actual tipping point was not the security concerns, but rather Mark Carney’s jealousy about Donald Trump’s immaculate combover.

Now, if you got through all that and think that this is an entirely unreasonable thing for Canada and Denmark to do, and that the response from the United States should be swift, brutal and overwhelming force against both countries to immediately liberate Donald Trump from the Faroese prison where he is being held and there should be further force exercised against both countries to ensure that they are never able to execute such an attack again, then I invite you to consider that this is in essence what the United States just did to Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro.