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I disagree.
NATO without USA has 5x the cold weather trained troops and 10x the cold weather equipment as USA. USA could certainly land but Denmark and its northern neighbors could pretty easily and I don't think even with great cost make it prohibitively difficult to stay. It would end up looking like Finland's Great Winter War IMO.
If you don't live and breathe cold weather fighting, it's very easy to lose in these conditions. Your equipment gets packed with snow, the lubricant in your vehicle turns to sludge, the optics on your gun fog over, your doors freeze shut, your personnel get too cold to fight, etc.
Even just Denmark, Finland, and Sweden could pull this off themselves, or likely just Denmark and one of those 2. The US has a long track record of losing guerrila wars and your neighbors like Finland know how to win them in conditions like what you have in Greenland.
If you aren't going to fight, then you might as well just hand the keys to your whole country to the USA and save the headache.
How will you get them there? The US controls the ocean. I suspect they also control low earth orbit and so will be constantly watching.
Yeah, everyone knows that Hellfire missiles are the perfect weapons for polar guerilla fighting! In fact, that's the ONLY thing they're good for and the US aren't keeping any for themselves!
I know it's a fun fantasy to pretend that the "home field advantage" is big enough to outweigh a thousandfold discrepancy in weaponry and manpower, but that's all it is: a fantasy that would make for a good feelgood underdog movie, but wouldn't come true in reality. The discrepancy is just far too immense.
Damn, this last bit of nonsense makes your previous blathering seem downright sensible in comparison!
If the undisputed world champion boxers of every weight class all threatened to steal your house, would you consider giving them your house or beating them all simultaneously in a boxing match your only options?
That's how mismatched the militaries are and thus how idiotic it would be for Denmark to consider war the only alternative to capitulation.
You obviously haven't been paying attention. Because you with your neighbors outnumber the USA in anything that will matter in this war.
And I'd love to hear how you are going to keep Greenland and do nothing to stop the USA from taking it. It sounds like quite the plan.
Propaganda bots out in troves recently. Switched from talking about the files to glazing the US and how unbeatable they are. Pretty obvious where they are if you pay attention.
You calling me a propaganda bot for being aware of the colossal difference in military might between my tiny country and the fascist-occupied US? 🙄
Because THAT would be peak .world shitlibbery lol
I meant the other guy. But very American of you to think I'm against you even when I'm supporting you.
Wait, you think I'm the guy who's glazing the US? My whole argument is about how Denmark and their allies can effectively defeat the USA..
Anyway, ITT if you look at either of our profiles, it's pretty clear that neither of us are bots..
And I have a Danish mother and American father and have lived almost exactly half my life on each continent, so I'm not sure you could find someone at least demographically more neutral on this issue, though politically I am fully on Denmark's side and against anything Trump does.
I don't see what's American about it but ok, my bad 😁
This video lays it out nicely if you don't believe me