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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.
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Yes it will be short when all the NATO treaty members all have to launch nukes at each other because of mutual defence.
(I know this won’t actually happen and the us can just do whatever it wants of course)
Also worth noting that article 5 doesn't actually say what people seem to think it says. It just states that each member has to help in some way, but the level of support is completely up to them. It absolutely does not require members to engage militarily.
Canada commits to sending $12b worth of laser guided Thoughts and Prayers
Canada donates their entire military to the invasion of Greenland leaving them completely open to the American Anschluss
I feel like the US is just gonna take it and everyone will pretend it was nice and cool.
That seems like the most likely scenario, cause let's be real who's gonna stop them?
This has been honestly better foreign policy from Trump than I could have ever expected, burn all the bridges in the imperial core even before taking the office
You love to see it. I implore all American PATRIOTS to encourage this behaviour from the white house!
If it's shorter than 6 days he's going to piss off the Zionists
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.
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
I absolutely cannot say qoqassiisarlutik sorsuttut, but I do thank them for their service.
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.
US military conducts first major beachhead operation since WW2
Thousands of American troops freeze to death
marines in ancient AAVs drowning en mass because nobody thought to check if the water had icebergs before ordering a landing
I know everyone is laughing at the absurdity of this but please think of the Inuit who are already colonized by Denmark
whites actually settled Greenland as well, but died out because they couldn't handle the cold
one of the rare few cases where outcompetition took place naturally, and not by throwing hordes of racism + people at stuff
this is like an old school StarCraft battle.net grief move. you wait until your "ally" sends in an attack wave, then send your dudes into your "allies" base and then turn off allies/unshare vision with them.
then when they post "wtf" in the chat, you say, "you should never trust the [your team's race]" or something else deranged.
"you should never trust the [your team's race]"
you should never trust honkeys?
Just so everybody knows, the shortest war in world history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which lasted approximately 38 minutes. So if the US invasion of Greenland takes fewer than 37 minutes before Denmark surrenders, it will officially be the new shortest war in world history.
If the US actually sent an invading force I imagine they would capitulate before boots are even on the ground. What the fuck are the Danes gonna do against the US war machine lol?
They don't even have nuclear power plants let alone weapons.
They could pull a Three Hundred and Thirty Five Year's War esque situation where they just declare war and never sign a peace treaty, without ever actually mobilizing their army or trying to fight back.
All the yanks would need to do would be to send a mid-sized naval ship and a polite letter and the Danes would surrender.
I wonder if the US will just straight up start annexing it's allies
[Norway declares independence after 277 years of Danish rule, Sweden immediately invades] "God dammit!"
[Norway declares independence after 91 years of Swedish rule, Germany invades 35 years later] "Not again!"
[Norway liberated after 5 years of German occupation, USA invades 80 years later] "WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!?!"
I want the US to invade Norway
It would be so fucking funny
I want based Norwegian guerillas on skis sniping yanks in the mountains.
I am incidentally an American in Norway, and I've always been very firmly opposed to the US military presence in this country. Which probably means I'd be among the very first people the Yankee occupying forces would execute if they were to formalize their occupation.
If I survive, however, rest assured that my partisan brigade would gladly take in any of my drafted cousins who wish to desert their posts. It would probably be the most effective force fighting the Yankees, too. It would be named after my communist great-granddad who derailed an enemy train the last time a fascist settler-colonial state invaded the Weathered North.
I can confidently say the imperial expansion will not include expansion of the franchise
I swear to god if I see one more post about how annexing greenland would be sooooooooo stupid because then their democratic representatives would all vote for the socialized healthcare and leftist policies they're used to since they're part of Denmark I'm going to become the fucking joker. The layers on it!
They are white and have money. We haven't tried colonizing one of those in a while. I don't think we are up to the challenge
Sorry are you talking about Greenland or metropolitan Denmark?
Edit: To be clear, Greenland is about 90% Kalaallit — you know, Inuit, one of the main Indigenous groups of far northern America, including in Alaska where the local Inuit group is the Iñupiat people. Greenland has historically struggled from comparatively high poverty, unemployment, and alcoholism, as a result of Danish colonialism, and today remains the single most suicidal country in the world.
I have to wonder how many other people on this site just assume Greenland is "rich and white", because they've never actually bothered to look into the country and just think "all Nordic countries are basically the same". I've definitely seen a few other comments about Greenland in the past few days that made me raise an eyebrow. I really can't imagine many people would find it particularly funny if the USA illegally annexed one of the continent's last remaining Indigenous-majority regions explicitly for the purposes of resource extraction, literally in the midst of an official investigation into a 1960s attempted genocide of the said Natives by their current colonial master.
Greenland's current prime minister has called for the island's independence, and the correct stance on the Greenland issue is to support this proposal firmly and unequivocally.
Edit: Obligatory quotation from our favorite Chairman:
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won't do!
It won't do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!
Good Mao quote. I should get that tattooed across the inside of my eyelids.
Yeah, in my head it was just just other Iceland. In retrospect I can't recall ever hearing anything about the area specifically. I think something about vikings setting up there in gradeschool then nothing more
This is what I thought Greenland was until this morning, thank you for the education
Knowing two facts about Greenland I am probbaly in like the 80th percentile of Americans. So you might actually be right
This prompted me to look at Greenland’s demographics and…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_case
I’ve said this before, but this site helps me learn about a new horror committed by Europeans at least weekly.
Idk if this is widespread knowledge in Europe, and particularly Denmark, but I’m amazed I had never heard of this. Almost as bad as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Death to America, Death to Colonialism, Death to Crakkkers
Support plummets among chewing tobacco enthusiasts once they find out the city of Copenhagen has nothing to do with the price of dip.
well half of the name makes sense, but idk what the fuck "hagen" means :^)
nuclear armageddon would be pretty short too
I don't think duration is the key problem with how bad a war is
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