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Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by hnbad »

ReptileMan wrote: post #251
ochrist wrote: post #227

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The distance between Kalilingrad (Russia) and the island of Bornholm (Denmark) is only about 300 km (or 200 miles). They don't have to go to 'many many countries' to get to Denmark. Please look at a map.

Ahh yes. The military powerhouse that is Kaliningrad - which to make any kind of buildup or resupply you have to trample trough two NATO countries. Or to sail Russia's nonexistent or pathetic (in best of times) fleet trough a lot of hostile waters.

You know where Kaliningrad is but you couldn't find Denmark (aka the country that includes that big piece of land next to Canada that Trump and Vance have been talking about annexing) on a map?

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by victorbjorklund »

walthamstow wrote: post #271
guappa wrote: post #269

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I live in sweden and I can tell you that over here it's all idle talk, nothing and nobody is prepared for anything at all. And the only ones who do buy-in are gun lovers and preppers, which are not a major demographic.

But if the time came, would you trust your neighbour to do the right thing? Sweden is a high-trust society based on friends in London and from visits there, especially outside Stockholm. The UK and US are definitely not. I thought I had read that Sweden had made some changes to military service recently, is that not true?

I'm from Sweden, I 100% would not trust my neighbors. Sure, maybe if you live in a tiny tiny village in the countryside, but if that's the case you probably have the same thing if you're living in a tiny tiny village in a in the US too. Like that's more of an effect of living in a very small village, not anything about the country.

And regarding the changes to the military, that is still a very small amount of people who are doing the basic conscription service.

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Post by guappa »

TrojanHookworm wrote: post #275
guappa wrote: post #249

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Poteto potato…

Not really. Since Greenland is a county, not a colony, their government has self-rule (albeit limited), including the option of pursuing independence, and their citizens have access to the amenities of the metropole (healthcare, education etc.).

And why do people end up in denmark in jail then?

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Post by chvid »

0dayz wrote: post #256
chvid wrote: post #199

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It is crazy; but it is wake up time for us Europeans. We are already seeing US campaigns against judges and legal scholars in the Netherlands, Italy, and Brazil.

Mind sharing those articles?

The Brazil stuff is related to the case againt Trump-ally Bolsonaro. The European cases so far have been related to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The US uses its so-called SDN list which in general prevents the person having a bank account in any western country. It also caused Microsoft to kill off the email account (I believe the full azure services - ie. Active Directory - rendering his work computer useless) of a prosecutor at the international criminal court:

https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says

Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

...

A Microsoft spokesperson said that it had been in contact with the court since February “throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services.” The spokesperson added that “at no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC.”

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by scotty79 »

ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

Yes. War with russia is optimal course of action right now for Europe as russia extensively proved it can't be just left alone for any period of time. So some inconvenience for western Europe is expected and everywhere there are efforts to prepare for it.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by TrojanHookworm »

guappa wrote: post #293
TrojanHookworm wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Since Greenland is a county, not a colony, their government has self-rule (albeit limited), including the option of pursuing independence, and their citizens have access to the amenities of the metropole (healthcare, education etc.).

And why do people end up in denmark in jail then?

What does this have to do with whether or not Greenland is a colony?

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Post by amai »

londons_explore wrote: post #41

What pays for this? If an emergency store costs 10% more to run, and emergencies are only 1 day in 10,000, then prices during emergencies would need to be 1000x normal for it to make business sense. Unfortunately anti-price-gouging laws wouldn't allow that, nor would you manage to keep law and order in the shop when telling customers that a bottle of water is gonna cost them 2000 dollars/euros.

Maybe the shops are also open during normal times?

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Post by scotty79 »

riffraff wrote: post #151
xp84 wrote: post #126

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Yeah, in my humble opinion anyone in Europe that considers wider war breaking out to be farfetched is not paying enough attention. You can be forgiven however if you're a millennial (as I am) or younger, because the long peace has been so long that it seems crazy that Russia might start dropping bombs, say, on Copenhagen or London. "They wouldn't dare attack NATO" we would have said 10 years ago. But today, NATO is a…

All out war shocked the shit out of the 20 somethings in Ukraine too, many fled, and yet Russia has not made significant advances in the following three years. There's no plausible world in which Russia has the strength to take on the rest of Europe, in, say, the next ten years. (Let's assume nukes are out of the question)

Not conventionally, but they still can cause a nuisance with long range weapons and even few nukes out of thousands they advertise might still be accidentally operational.

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Post by scotty79 »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #255
xp84 wrote: post #126

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Yeah, in my humble opinion anyone in Europe that considers wider war breaking out to be farfetched is not paying enough attention. You can be forgiven however if you're a millennial (as I am) or younger, because the long peace has been so long that it seems crazy that Russia might start dropping bombs, say, on Copenhagen or London. "They wouldn't dare attack NATO" we would have said 10 years ago. But today, NATO is a…

Actually, those who remember the 90s and, before that, the Cold War see and understand that Europe is much safer now that it was then. The USSR was much stronger relative to Western Europe then. Now Russia is probably at its weakest relative to NATO (it might have been weaker in the early 90s but NATO had also not expanded to its current footprint). Rememeber also that there was a hot war in the middle of Europe (for…

> Now Russia is probably at its weakest relative to NATO

That's exactly why there's gonna by full scale war with russia. It's simply the best moment for it and russia showed it can't be left alone.

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Post by scotty79 »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #165
ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

The risk level for a land war across Western Europe is probably the lowest it has ever been. The balance of power is tilted against Russia much more than during the Cold War. That threat does not stand the most basic scrutiny. Russia couldn't reach Western Europe if they tried. Claims that it is the worst since WWII conveniently ignore the Cold War and even the 90s. Western Europe is better off now. It is incredible…

> The balance of power is tilted against Russia much more than during the Cold War.

That's exactly why the full scale war is going to happen. There wasn't any better time to deal with russia than it is now.

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