The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.
It would also completely crumble the rules based order that liberals love mentioning.
Yeah, that would be the end of any pretense that there’s some sort of western unity.
I’m honestly hoping for it to see this shit crumble up faster than expected.
It would be for the absolute dumbest and funniest reason, too.
Europeans committed a cardinal error in their assumption that the US was their steadfast ally and guardian. In truth, the relationship is akin to one where a farmer shelters a goat. It’s not done out of affection, but with the cold calculation of one who knows it will eventually be led to the slaughter.
There was a moment in the first Trump term where it looked like Europeans were starting to consider other options.
Then Biden got elected so everything went back to normal, ie. the complete and utter sellout of their nations.
I find it absolutely surreal that Europeans didn’t understand that the first Trump term wasn’t a fluke. I guess that’s what happens when you reject material analysis.
Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin. He should have continued to Uelen
Would be the best end of NATO, tearing itself apart.
I think they would just suck it up with barely any comment. I mean normally Nordstream sabotage should be the end of NATO but instead we have entire EU with the victim in the speartip wrecking their own economies in order to support the official perpetrator of that act. Greenland is basically nothing in comparison.
Yes, take away my medical hopium.
God-emperor-elect comes up with a half-baked idea from a sodium-induced fever dream and immediately the media, his friends in government, think tanks, his entire cohort of magas, the whole entire state apparatus throws itself completely behind this and tells you 24/7 why this is actually the best idea ever and they absolutely need to do this and he’s not even in office yet!
I read a Reuters article the other day that went “it makes sense to take Greenland, because Russia will likely send nukes from across the North Pole, so that gives us early warning” and I was just perplexed things could get even crazier in this country. No surprise they’d use the Russian boogeyman tactic to placate libs into supporting this insanity, and yet color me surprised.
This sort of thing can easily turn into a self fulfilling prophecy. He might’ve quipped it as trolling initially, but now that the media picked it up as a serious thing that gives legs to the idea. And it could also be the case that he blurted something out that is an actual plan they’re hatching. It actually makes a certain kind of sense from US perspective as Greenland is strategically placed and resource rich. If the US is now retrenching, they’re going to be carving out their sphere of influence.
Important to note Greenland is not in the best graces of the US it seems. Recently released NVIDIA chips tier ban list of countries flags it as not favored like most of the EU. And this was done by Biden. Not Republicans, Biden administration.
But that won’t matter if US actually annexes it.
Dunno, if the glorious US counterinvasion of the Aleuten islands in WW2 is any indication then it will be among the most hilarious wars at least. The US is not too good with arctic islands.
USA already has a sort of control over Greenland due to the Thule air base
Exactly, and if the US just says Greenland is a protectorate now then nobody would challenge that.
because it`s not going to happen?
so…usa is trying to invade something that basically belongs to them?
it’s a good way to discipline their vassals and let them know what’s up
