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European NATO leaders have issued a joint statement that "Greenland belongs to its people" and it is for the Arctic island and Denmark only to decide on its future, after President Donald Trump's administration reiterated its wish to take control of it.

The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.

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[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Send all your military to Ukraine so America can beat a tired army in half an hour and take over Greenland and Canada.

Amazing plan!

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not all. We're not going to station a hundred thousand troops on Greenland. That war is going to be fought mostly at sea and in the air, with relatively small numbers of arctic units on the ground.

The main thing we need is subs to sink the aircraft carrier they will send. The US is about as far from Greenland as the UK, while Canada and Iceland, both NATO, are closer. That gives us the advantage of closer airfields and fjords to hide subs. Once the US loses a carrier group to Trump's folly, they'll reconsider the wisdom of their greedy aggression. Maybe not Trump and Miller, but everybody else will.

I don't think we should engage with their carrier in the air. Our air forces are first needed in Ukraine to provide air cover for a breakthrough there. I know it sounds utterly nuts, but I think NATO has a fair chance of fending off Russia and the US at the same time. But we need to be more decisive than we generally are.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When will Europe stop pretending that NATO is mostly America. Without America, NATO is laughable.

It doesn't look like you want to seriously go into a war with America. You have your fingers crossed hoping Trump realised they shouldn't attack another country cuz stealing land is bad.

You do want to get in a serious war with Russia.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I don't want to get into any war, but Trump and Putin only respect countries they see as strong, and they see us as weak. The way to discourage their aggression is to show ourselves to be strong. By far the easiest way to do that is by liberating Ukraine. If we don't even do that, how can they believe we'll defend Greenland or Estonia?