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Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by i80and »

apples_oranges wrote: post #2

I wonder how likely Trumps assumption, that Russia or China will take it if he doesn't, is..

About 0%. China really has no serious interest in Greenland, and Russia isn't going to trigger direct confrontation with NATO. At least, unless NATO splinters, which is looking somewhat likely now with this foolish US administration.

Russia and China are just made-up excuses for Trump to do what he wants to do: steal territory, at gunpoint if needed.

Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by fsh »

apples_oranges wrote: post #2

I wonder how likely Trumps assumption, that Russia or China will take it if he doesn't, is..

Zero. Denmark belongs to the EU and NATO, and Greenland has always had a significant NATO military presence to deter any possible threat.

Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by hypeatei »

apples_oranges wrote: post #2

I wonder how likely Trumps assumption, that Russia or China will take it if he doesn't, is..

We already have military bases there and I'm sure Greenland wouldn't have cared if we asked for a few more. This is all to stroke someone's ego and get their name in a history book.

Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by netsharc »

Geonode wrote: post #6

This is the top post this morning? The issue won't come to military action. But if it did, Denmark could exercise all they want, and it would still last about ten minutes. Not sure how this is relevant to anything.

> The issue won't come to military action.

How can you be so certain with that diaper-filler in chief?

Deploying troops looks like an attempt to dissuade invasion by highlighting that the optics of US troops capturing (hopefully not shooting at) NATO troops would be real bad...

Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by petcat »

I feel like this is all going to end up with Denmark agreeing to long-term resource share with USA where USA gets something like 85% in exchange for Denmark getting to keep the title.

Nobody is going to war over this and Denmark/EU wants to save face.

Re: Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

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Post by V__ »

apples_oranges wrote: post #2

I wonder how likely Trumps assumption, that Russia or China will take it if he doesn't, is..

1. The U.S. has multiple bases in Greenland. Denmark, and NATO are also present.

2. Russia can't even expand their presence to Ukraine (not a NATO memeber).

3. China has no access.

So, 0%.

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