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[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 27 points 3 days ago

GOOD. And this is how ALL countries need to be moving forward. America is not to be trusted. We are NOT the good guys.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Can other EU countries station their troops there, like peacemakers? Shooting at just danes is one thing, shooting randomly at swedes, finns, germans, french is different. I think it is important to insist from the beginning that the whole EU is in it, and if whatever happens, having slovaks or hungarians, poles or greeks being angered by their man down is the way to ensure Greenland won't be alone.

[–] canofcam@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is a highly complex situation...

And by highly complex, I mean nobody wants to risk their own economy and relationship with US. All of these 'powerful' countries will publicly denounce actions whilst doing nothing to prevent them.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then Trump will come for them eventually.

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Teacher i require poland's desk too

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

May it become mandatory for some unpredictable and highly impossible reason?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Please send European peacekeepers to Canada 🇪🇺

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The US military will notice troop mobilizations before they even leave port. It would trigger an instant invasion.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 24 points 4 days ago

Seeing how our NATO "allies" are acting recently, this sounds like a good idea.

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

maga doesnt have to do a single thing to greenland, the threats alone are enough to distract from epstein, thats all that baby murdering fuck wants. maga will face zero consequences for thier threats, its free rent for maga.....

is what i thought in 2025..

[–] canofcam@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't think it's distraction. Why would they care about distracting? They can keep singing the narcissists hymn until the whole world is under their dictatorship.

Imagine all of the epstein files comes out, and the police go to arrest Trump, what do you think his cult does when that happens?

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

yeah, i see your point, i was hoping for a real impeachment, it appears that mechanism is completely broken in this system

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If he gets arrested I think they'll burn down court houses around the country. More interesting is what happens when he dies. Who becomes their new deity?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The Trump regime wants Greenland for minerals and warming Arctic sea lanes, plus a few other things. This is strategic, not a distraction.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

War with one EU member is war with the entire EU. The European Union's constitution plainly states that if any member is attacked, all others are required to do everything in their power to help defend that member.

As opposed to NATO's Article 5 that only requires all other members to do what they deem is necessary, which may be almost nothing at all.

Of course, divided as the EU currently is, we probably can't expect it to suddenly work together as one to defend from American aggression. Even pro-EU countries may end up doing nothing due to various factors such as pro-US president (Poland) or major American military equipment contracts (Finland).

At the very least France seems prepared to defend the European Union. As much as I criticized Macron in the past, I'm happy to see him standing up to the empire and firmly supporting the EU.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If the US invaded, or took significant military action against Greenland, we would be in deep deep shit.

The forced takeover of Greenland would harm NATO’s ability to preserve trust between its member nations. The North Atlantic Treaty contains Article 5, which requires member states to defend each other, but this provision would become ineffective when the United States faces an attack. The NATO allies would need to decide between taking action against Washington or giving up their commitment to collective defense.

This would become the point at which I would start seriously considering moving to a site on which I could build a bomb shelter, or at least stockpile long-term quantities of non-perishable food and survival supplies. Starting WWIII for fucking Greenland is beyond any description of surreal insanity I can feasibly elucidate. It would take a poem, or a song.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

What would jesus do....? Flip sum gawd damn tables and go ape. Ahhhhhh hell nah

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

supply them with "danish cookies"

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It's infuriating to know that no one will stop Cheeto Chimp.

There might possibly be early, immediate resistance, however EU/NATO will not use military forces to protect Greenland.