“Following US President Trump’s insistence on Greenland, Germany, France, Sweden, and Norway decided to send troops to the island under NATO auspices at Denmark’s request.”

NATO, dissolved itself

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    11 days ago

    I don’t want to give the fascists too much credit, but is Greenland a distraction from Ukraine? Perhaps it is believed a diversion of forces to head off an imaginary invasion of Greenland will lessen the volume and rate of EU support to the eastern front?

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      11 days ago

      I’m sure these 16 troops and their respective equipment were going to turn the tides of the war in ukraine 😅 not mentioning that the US is still the primary benefactor of Ukraine.

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      11 days ago

      I’d sooner think a distraction from Venezuela. If everyone is outraged about something that might (and then doesn’t) happen, then there’s less discourse around real crimes.

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      With the world warming the Artic is opening up and Greenland itself will have a lot of strategic importance because of it. It also has a lot of natural resources that currently are difficult to be extracted but after the ice melts will be ripe for the taking.

      So the Orange Man is making a cynical play that makes sense, unfortunately.