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Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Already in that other comment.

I checked both the links in the other comment. While they satisfy the technical requirement of, "there exists an alternative" neither of them is generally available as a viable alternative to China.

They are for me.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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https://motor-g.com/en https://www.arctus.ai/products

Motor-g doesn't seem to ship outside of Ukraine. That's totally understandable but for anyone outside of Ukraine, they effectively don't exist. Arctus asks you to contact them just for product info. It seems they just raised 2.6M in seed funding 3 months ago. It's great that there are startups in NL but that's not even close to a replacement for China's scale yet. Both of these may change the landscape in the future.…

> Motor-g doesn't seem to ship outside of Ukraine.

They absolutely do.

> Arctus asks you to contact them just for product info.

You can order as much as you want from them, the price is right and the quality is extremely high.

Indeed, they're not on AliExpress, but that's roughly the difference between being a producer in Europe and in China, and that is precisely the difference that you should be happy with.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Where was this kind of movement when Russia invaded Europe in 2022? I think Europe's inaction in 2022 will go down as the greatest moral failing of the century. You can't say "they didn't act because Russia is a nuclear power" - the same is true here.

>"Where was this kind of movement when Russia invaded Europe in 2022"

Russia has invaded Ukraine. There is no political entity called Europe. And if you're talking geography than good chunk of Russia is in Europe.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Yeah the US we knew is gone. I think about this sometimes when I am listening to American music from the 20th century, how much soft power they had, how great they made America sound either directly or indirectly. That America that we all looked up to and admired is gone. Pity.

> how much soft power they had, Soft power? Have you been sleeping during the 20th century? The formidable military power of the US comes from a constant state of war.

Yes and they had a lot of soft power too.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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> I'm really happy these topics are being discussed here on HN, when they weren't ~1 year ago. They were being discussed a year ago, too, they just got flagged. Make sure to check /active

> Make sure to check /active Thanks, TIL.

We call it 'the better homepage'.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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>> What does post-USA world mean? >> Who is the leader in culture, business, technology? The only other contender I can think of is China. >> And this is better? Who says you need a leader in each of those? Maybe it's post-centralization, or in other words decentralization which people have been wanting for the internet for a while now.

Goes against pretty much all of history. I guarantee you the Chinese officials dont think this way and if your head is in the sand and its up for grabs they will grab it. They exert influence on geopolitics heavily and think in centuries rather than political cycles. Who owns AI and social media/tech will basically excert their values on the worlf

Not really? Technology spread fairly quickly for the last few hundred years, at least in the western world.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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It isn't obeyed or enforced and, therefore, is not the law. I won't read it as there is no point in doing so because it is not the law.

By that incredibly circular definition, laws don't exist. All it takes is ignoring them and then they disappear! That's obviously not how things work. If you don't obey the law, you are a criminal . That's the whole point of laws.

That's exactly correct. Laws are not a physical entity and therefore their existence is predicated entirely on collective agreement.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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> PR spin aside, Then the comment repeats the same PR spin.

The thing is, look at all major military alliances in history. How many of them have a wealthy hegemon and wealthy minor partners? It's > rare for that to happen and the US managed that for about 80 years. Ignore all the propaganda and look at the results. Actions, not words. In the modern era there are basically 0 wealthy Russian (similar story for the Soviets) or Chinese allies.

That’s a different topic. This is about how America acts towards the world, historically the so-called second and third world but now apparently to potentially everyone.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Breaking: country that a head of state threatened to invade was preparing for invasion.

> The Danish public broadcaster DR reports that officials in Denmark, France and Germany say that Donald Trump's threats to seize Greenland were taken so seriously that wide-ranging preparations were made to forcibly resist a US invasion of the Danish island.

Breaking (2): small country was preparing to forcibly resist (?) an invasion. That was threatened.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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> What power has the US ceded? Before this, we (large multinational infra company) were happily using AWS, microsoft and a bunch of other US based companies. Now we are beginning the migration away, not because its cheaper or better, but because we just don't think that we can trust the contracts we have with them any more. This isn't a sudden thing, we are not going to do it over night. But we are not renewing multi…

It’s interesting how these conversations always start and end with “my company isn’t buying XYZ American cloud provider services” while ignoring other incredibly important products and services that you can’t or are unwilling to boycott. Are you turning in your MacBook Pro and iPhone, or are you putting a bumper sticker on it saying you bought it before you knew America was crazy? Similarly, while it's great to take…

Both my iPhone and MacBook were bought from Apple Switzerland AG and shipped directly from china to me. The money will stay in Europe unless Trump does another tax holiday where American companies can send money back to the USA without paying taxes on it - otherwise it's a pretty hefty tax bill.
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