• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve not been following super closely for mental health reasons, but if it is just Denmark? We are looking at another Ukraine.

    Ukraine’s armed forces alone are 15x the total population of Greenland. This is more of a Grenada than a Ukraine.

    Whereas, if we start seeing other EU/NATO nations deploying troops to protect Greenland… there is a chance that SOMETHING remains and we don’t just have russia running over everyone else one by one.

    I would be much more worried about the power projection of the world’s largest military by a factor of 20 than the country currently caught in a quagmire halfway into the Donbas.

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Ukraine’s armed forces alone are 15× the total population of Greenland

      The Forsvaret (Danish Army) has the obligation to also defend autonomous territories of Denmark, i.e. Greenland and Faroe Islands. Its personnel is 100,000.

      Ukraine now has 6 times more army personnel than before the war (~2022).

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      The US could theoretically take island in days with raw force, but if a coalition Europe force holds enough territory to bring in more troops through then it’s going to be a bloody brutal slog.

      All becuase roughly half of America voters preferred a pedophile war criminal over a relatively normal politician

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        49 minutes ago

        Choosing a woman was the mistake. The U.S is full of religious people. And the one thing all religious people have common no matter what cult or sect they’re in, is that they hate women and want to rape children.

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        2 days ago

        Ah, but she had a weird laugh and a less than ideal reply to a gaza question.