• zitronenschnitte@feddit.org
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      17 days ago

      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.

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      17 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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        17 days ago

        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