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One of our biggest practical vulnerabilities is that our payment and electronic id infrastructure (nets, dankort, mitid) has been sold off to a private company (Mastercard) even though it was at one point a government owned and developed setup.
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Denmark are. Only two days ago the danish PM on public TV said the had ordered the head of the danish military to "buy, buy, buy" [1][2] [as many weapons as the can get their hands on]. This is repeatition of of what she said 6 months ago[3] [1] https://www.dr.dk/drn-video/67b5f9f966d82a0507aeda6a [2] https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/mette-frederiksen-vil-slaa... [3] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-boos…
Not 2 days ago, but in February, iirc. We are thankfully on quite the shopping spree, we have also decided to include women into conscription (and that conscripts can be used for real missions, iirc) and we are financing and building Ukrainian weapons like the Flamingo. Also, Scandinavia has pooled our airforces into one airforce, surpassing the UK, France etc. in size.
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A cyber attack is still an attack. Sabotage by agents is an attack. Russia is a terrorist state and will attack this country sooner or later. It's just a question of time.
I don't think denmark has any moral high ground while holding greenland as a colony.
Good work.
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Yes this is all BS but I don't think the EU is rooting for war. My suspicion is that EU countries want to build a stronger military and one more integrated at EU level. Both are hard sells especially when governments also keep telling us that there is no money for anything... So Ukraine is a very convenient scarecrow to "manufacture consent".
I would understand that but in the end we're going to spend enormous amounts of money to buy most of our weapons from the US and each on its own. In fact, just by integrating our militaries we could increase our strength and keep the expenses at the current level. The impression is that all this, including cutting ties with Russia (who is selling us the gas now?), is done to the benefit of the US rather than ours.
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That's your personal choice. Doesn't mean stores don't accept cash.
No, its the nature of the country. And, most companies don’t take cash, especially smaller ones. Large companies (ICA the supermarket) takes cash but it’s like 1/200 who use cash and the cashier is often visibly flustered when cash is presented.
I happen to be in sweden in this very moment. And no, cashiers are not flustered and alarmed when they see cash, old people pay with cash every day.
Yes there is some restaurants that will not take cash.
Last april I was in a place where they did not take cards :)
There's more to sweden than what you personally experience.
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Job opportunities, access to education... There is no basic infrastructure there! First deliver that, than blame "polar regions". Denmark ks treating Greenland as it's colony!!! Iceland has very similar situation, but farfar better infrastructure!!!
You are entirely right. And apparently if you go to jail they place you in denmark so you can't receive visits. Yes greenland is a colony. But I don't think that making them USA's colony would improve their situation… see how the natives of guam or hawaii are doing for example.
This is quite a fun app to play with: This link has some presets https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=55.675313...
You do understand that the first country to use nukes offensively will become pariah for 100 years?
(Not to detract from your otherwise correct post).
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Do you think the US is going to build railroads in Greenland?! Anyway the campaign for Greenland is ramping up. And it goes from all the way from weird social media posts, oddly timed attacks on Danish companies (Orsted), huge US "diplomatic" build up in Nuuk, weird "little green men", various statements of agression by Trump and surrogates. And there is a Danish campaign on other side with a silly number of visits b…
I expect US would build more infrastructure. Maybe even rail eventually. So yes! Alaska seems to be doing pretty well! Denmark treats Greenland as pristine natural reserve, where people should not exists, and are just nuisance!
> Alaska seems to be doing pretty well!
Alaska has towns not connected by roads and rail, so maybe you could start there. Maybe start by connecting Nome[1].
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> FILO Hard to address the consumers' tendency to "reach out in the back", to get longer expiration time products.
Honestly it seems like I am the only one in my local Aldi who does this. I see people picking up fish that is three days older than the one at the back.