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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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        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.