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Danish Prime Minister calls USA their most important ally 🤦 (www.dr.dk)
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Translation:

Prime Minister: The Americans are still our most important ally

Despite the current drama between the USA, Denmark and Greenland, the Americans are still the Danes' most important ally.

This is what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) says.

  • Yes, I think so of course, all the while that it was the Americans who saved Europe in the 40s and ended World War II, and because the USA and Europe, together with Canada, have jointly built the strongest defense alliance the world has ever seen, says the Prime Minister.

  • It is still NATO, by the way, but there is a conflict over Greenland, unfortunately. It is not only Denmark and Greenland that believe that there is a conflict that is serious for Europe and the USA. We have received massive support from the major countries in NATO.

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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This. Until the EU has a credible deterrence against Russia - and to some extent against the US riding roughshod - Denmark and Europe at large will say and do whatever is needed to keep America engaged.

But in 10 years time, when all the new gear that has been ordered is in use and mobilisation forces have been trained, patience with American bullying will grow very thin.

There’s a reason that the US has an official policy to undermine the EU; it’s pure divide-and-conquer. If Europe is unified (enough), they are a force to be reckoned with. If they are just a collection of small to medium countries they’ll be a compliant market to the US, with just enough backing for Russia to understand not to roll over Central European borders.

It’s geo-politics at play, on a grand stage.

Europe’s sole chance here is to build a decouple, duplicative, non-EU discriminating force structure (before you react to the use of the word discriminating, I’m only repeating what Madeleine Albrecht warned the EU against) that can act on its own, with its own continent wide nuclear umbrella.

The alternative is domination.