Trump’s invasion of Greenland would be ‘the shortest war in the world’ – POLITICO
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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.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    12 hours ago

    Gonna predict a quick and easy war based on enemy official military spending and the size of their standing army, eh? Gotta respect the classics.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      10 hours ago

      And now, Greenlandic Dora in 2026:

      "That YanKKKee soldier was just sniped by a qoqassiisarlutik sorsuttut. That's what we in Greenland call a guerrilla fighter. Can you say qoqassiisarlutik sorsuttut?"

      edit

      That might actually say "guerrilla fighters" rather than just "guerrilla fighter", I'm not sure

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        10 hours ago

        I absolutely cannot say qoqassiisarlutik sorsuttut, but I do thank them for their service.

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          9 hours ago

          Honestly, I like singing along to Greenlandic songs sometimes. I end up wondering if I'm really so weird for not finding reading Greenlandic particularly challenging, or if other people just get scared off by the word lengths and never actually try.