Great headline but apparently it’s the great total of 13 soldiers.
Which is enough for the purpose. Denmark invited to come together and talk about ways to support Greenland. So they are not there to defend (yet), but to survey and get an idea of the conditions.
As zitronenschnitte@feddit.org said, they are there as a scouting group in preparation for a larger contingent.
Anyway, they already are a deterrent, because of their presence, any attack on Greenland risks being an attack on every single country that has sent soldiers for its defence, no matter how few.
Their presence is also a very robust assurance of support, because having one’s troops attacked is way harder to ignore or brush aside than a verbal assurance or some piece of paper.
I know it’s a good first step. I just wanted to highlight, that the headline, although technically the truth, is a bit sensationalist. Also I don’t think Trump will be impressed by that. But I can see how sending a small team is also a strong indirect message to Trump.
That practically doubled the population
That’s funny, I get it. As Europeans, we can make that joke.
Just like, as a Dutch person, I can make jokes about casting Friesland into the Northsea. But if some fuck like Trump starts talking shit about Friesland, than they’ll have to endure my strongly worded comments on alternative social media.
Same goes for Greenland
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Its small enough numbers that its symbolic for defence, but attacking so many countries militaries will be an act of war against the EU and draw all of NATO and the EU into a war. Multiple countries in this are also nuclear powers. I really wish the USA would see sense, but its fallen to fascist rule and once again fascism is bringing enormous wars to the world and this one is going to be much deadlier than those previous. Lets hope the orangutan decides its not worth it like he has with Iran.
MAGA = Make America Go Away
And Russia rubs its hands in glee at having divided the West. Great job, MAGA.
MAGA likes Russia. They will feel no remorse. They’re authoritarians that enjoy what Russia is up to.
Yeah, untill they go live there and get used for the meat grinder
True story
It’s genuinely somewhat surprising, but also very much pleasant to see the EU and friends uniting when the American Empire finally stops pretending and openly shows its true colours. I was betting we’d all just let the nazis do whatever they wanted. Love to have been wrong here.
Looks like maybe we can be strong when we want to. From the bottom of my heart I hope we can keep this up, stick together and show the billionaire pedophiles that their time is over.
Dismantle the empire and bring everyone responsible for its atrocities to justice. No exceptions, no gentle treatment.
They’re not fighting against the US. They’re preparing against China, which has a small foothold there. That’s why the US is panicking.
I know you’re joking but, you are joking, right?
They explicity leave it vauge against whom greenlends needs to be defended.
intresting to hear from what is basically germanys “propaganda” channel (the propagande being: look how neutral our news is. tangent: the japanese channel NHK world is basically travel documentaries and “look how delicous our food is”, and well russia has a different aproach with russia today xD)
The Swedish prime minister kept repeating the word “övning” (“exercise”, as in training) in interviews yesterday.
But is ok. It is called diplomacy. Everybody knows exactly what all of this is and why.
It is difficult and fucking weird that we have to deploy troops to defend our allies from our other supposed allies.
There is a word for those so-called supposed allies that describes more accurate what they actually are: Enemies.
We need no enemies with allies like that
Against-our-interests
It is difficult and fucking weird that we have to deploy troops to defend our allies from our other supposed allies.
Yes. And - of all the things - the rogue country being the one that brought the alliance together in the firstplace.
Which is why it was the first and primary target for the most successful psyops campaign in history.