RE: Just like living in paradise?

Your Paradise example is a great one. Most of us dont have all the knowledge to determine if certain words or actions are good or not so good. And for whom. In certain situations, like the Paradise example, it may be better to do something drastic, which will be positive for some and negative to others, without consulting all and agreeing jointly, or at least all the different (community) leaders.

However, we shall not close our eyes for patterns we see. What happened in Venezuela is something we've seen many times before in recent decades. The words used around Greenland is another level. Not because the same words weren't used before towards other nations, but Greenland is part of NATO. Using force of any kind will immediately turn a friendship between two continents into true enemies. That is the scary part. Am afraid whatever is happening and will happen over the next three years will not benefit the US in the long run. Perhaps it will, but in my mind and logic, likely it will not. But only time will tell.

This feels more like paradise lost versus living in paradise.

This is a great way to put it.