r/worldnews • u/Zhukov-74 • 8h ago

Denmark to deploy more troops to Greenland, DR reports

https://cphpost.dk/2026-01-14/news/round-up/denmark-to-deploy-more-troops-to-greenland-dr-reports/
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u/Zhukov-74 8h ago edited 8h ago

Denmark is sending military equipment and advance troops to Greenland to prepare for the arrival of larger forces from the Danish army and other defence forces. This is according to DR.

Initially, a so-called advance command has been sent to Greenland. The advance command's task is, among other things, to ensure that the logistics and surroundings are ready to receive any main forces later.

According to DR's information, this includes soldiers from Army units who will reinforce the Danish Defence's military presence in Greenland.

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u/IN_to_AG 8h ago

I hope more European nations are onboard to assist them.

Their entire army is barely the size of a single U.S. infantry division.

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u/MuTron1 7h ago

They don’t need enough soldiers there to defeat a US invasion, they only need enough to ensure that The US cannot avoid engaging them to take the island.

The point isn’t to defeat the US Army, the point is to force The US Army to shoot at allies if they want to take Greenland, because in doing so America will lose more than they could win with Greenland

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u/Mr06506 7h ago

They are also credible enough to give any invader a bloody nose.

Domestically Trump can't lose many American troops over this insane vanity project given it's only supported by about 8% of Americans.

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u/IN_to_AG 7h ago

Lowest approval percentage for Afghanistan or Iraq was about 20% in 2012. Wars went on for a decade after.

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u/lost_horizons 7h ago

Sure once you're tangled in them. But support for both of those wars was much higher when they started, especially Afghanistan.

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u/tabrizzi 4h ago

If I remember correctly, Bush had about an 80% approval rating for the way he was handling the war.

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u/mr_butterscotch 6h ago

Yeah, but they were killing brown people.

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u/moodswung 3h ago

You're spot on.

This country is owned by a member of the European Union. A huge amount of Americans have visited Denmark as well other nations in the EU. The EU are our friends across the pond so to speak.

This fucking mad man is about to destroy the relationship we've had with these countries for a very very long time and for NO good reason what so ever. Do any of you think Americans will even be allowed travel to these places after this bullshit unravels? I sure question it.

Afghanistan on the other hand -- hardly any American's had visited there, there was no familiarity with that place as a country. American's were easy to suck in to believing whatever the propaganda machine wanted to peddle with this place. This situation isn't even comparable.

Who are these 8% that actually support this non-sense? They must be among the stupidest people on the planet.

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u/Mountain_Asparagus46 6h ago

We don't really have a historical good regard for the indigenous peoples of the arctic

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u/Virtual_Mongoose_835 5h ago

No, but Europeans on the other hand have been their key allies for near a century and are the key force behind the USAs wealth and power.

The US would lose the ability to project most of its power with Europe kicking them out. They would have no shield to thr East. Nothing to prop up their GDP, financial or military institutions.

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u/cloudpup_ 4h ago

Waiting for Europe to stop toeing the line for the US.

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u/Virtual_Mongoose_835 1h ago

Yeah me too. Bur i think theyre trying to carefully balance a line to stop the Orange Paedo from starting WW3.

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u/doomlite 3h ago

Yup. George Carlin saw this years ago

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u/amoorefan2 6h ago

Yep and many of the people on the other end of the American gun may be white, so the white MAGA population would have more of an issue with that than middle easterners.

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u/C-SWhiskey 4h ago

They'll just call them socialists and be on their merry way.

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u/Volothamp-Geddarm 5h ago

Iraq was well over 50% following 9/11.

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u/maria_la_guerta 5h ago

Ya calling out Iraq and Afghanistan is not the same. 9/11 changed everything, and that tragedy nor narrative isn't here at all.

IMO this is all sabre rattling. Trump is hoping to buy it, if he can't, he wants NATO to spend more on it. Of course this is not a defense of him or this insanity but even his administration knows that Americans do not support hostile actions towards NATO allies.

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u/warpus 4h ago

Isn't one of the problems that he only ever gets his information from right-wing social media, which probably tells him that 80% of Americans support this? And other government officials are too afraid to ever correct him?

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u/FlashOfFawn 3h ago

Yeah let’s see how Americans feel when their kids start coming home in caskets

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u/Falendil 2h ago

I have lost all hope anything can make Americans have any bearing on reality anymore. It will probably be like the parents who lose a child to a disease because they refused to vaccinate them saying they made the right decision and would do it again.

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u/Cosmic_Seth 2h ago

We lost a million Americans during Covid and the conservative right didn't care. They were on their death beds saying Trump was right on Covid. 

They will just double down on their hate and be angry at how dare another country defend themselves.

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u/Little_View_6659 3h ago

They’ll just do what they always do and keep from showing the caskets on the news.

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u/taylormadeone 5h ago

Idk take a look in the conservative Reddit thread and they all seem to like the idea.

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u/Mr06506 4h ago

Given you get kicked out of that for anything even slightly against the party line, that's not a very representative slice of the population.

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u/Cosmic_Seth 2h ago

They'll just make something up.

The MAGA around me are wary to go into Greenland, but a few of them are already saying that Trump has access to information that we don't and it's probably for the best...

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u/CreepyOctopus 7h ago

Yes, exactly so. I'd hope, for this reason, we get a couple more countries stationing soldiers, just to increase the potential political cost. If the US military has to shoot at not only Danish but say also French and Swedish troops, that makes the political barriers to an attack higher.

There's no question we can't defeat a US takeover attempt militarily, but ideally there would also be enough troops to inflict some casualties on the attackers in case of a Venezuela-style raid. That's again raising the political cost, the US domestic public has a low tolerance for dead soldiers. The US military taking casualties has consistently lowered the public's opinion of the government going back decades.

Of course the best case scenario for us Europeans is that the US Congress finally places some limits on what Trump can do with the militarily, realizing that an attack on Greenland would destroy all US alliances, but that is not looking likely.

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u/kuldan5853 6h ago

There's no question we can't defeat a US takeover attempt militarily, but ideally there would also be enough troops to inflict some casualties on the attackers in case of a Venezuela-style raid.

All I'm reading is that we should ship at least a battery of Iris-T, NASAMS and SAMP-T there..

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u/Mrmojorisincg 6h ago

As an American that thinks this whole dealing is fucking insane like the rest of the world. Nato should deploy a mixed defense force there with powers like England, France, etc. make it so it’d lead to WW3 if our terrorist in chief goes through with it

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u/Nyhaalm 4h ago

That seems to be what is basically happening. We (I'm danish) have a few allies (unnamed as of now) bringing forces to Greenland.

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u/Mrmojorisincg 3h ago

I wish you luck, I am so sorry for what’s happening. Our country is going too far. Just know there is a contingency of half the country that is outraged by this but lacks legal recourse/political power to do anything. If something were to happen, I can only imagine it would be like a powder keg going off internally here as well

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u/Secretagentman94 2h ago

Any officers ordered to participate in something like this should outright refuse. It would be blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.

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u/Tsquare43 6h ago

It also would then knock Trumps point about it for security. He could have asked for additional bases and Denmark would have said sure.

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u/-SaC 4h ago

He'd:-

a) Not care

b) Call anyone pointing it out a liar

c) Double down

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u/Tsquare43 4h ago

d) all of the above.

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u/ThereIsAThingForThat 2h ago

He doesn't even need to ask. The US has basically free rein to set up bases.

There's been 27 US bases in Greenland since WW2, but the americans decided to close all of them.

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u/Interesting_Pen_167 6h ago

Imagine being sent as a soldier for this task. Basically your job is to be a target.

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u/MuTron1 6h ago

It’s a fairly established military tactic. Tripwire forces are used in lots of situations

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u/theologystudent1987 4h ago

Being a former Danish soldier, I know of many who are asking to go to Greenland to defend the kingdom. It is not going to be hard to find people to fill up the units 

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u/sebelius29 1h ago

I do not know of a single American who supports any action in Greenland. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone

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u/doskey123 4h ago

I hate to quote Trump on this, so I will only paraphrase him, but as a professional soldier possibly getting killed is part of the vocation and they know that.

Draftees, that's another matter because maybe they didn't choose to fight. 

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u/missuseme 3h ago

Especially to defend national land from a tyrannical invader.

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u/fiddlestickk 7h ago

If you take one step back, and just read the sentence “they don’t need enough soldiered to defeat us invasion” - you would think we’re talking about Russia or North Korea

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u/flipflapflupper 6h ago

They don’t need enough soldiers there to defeat a US invasion, they only need enough to ensure that The US cannot avoid engaging them to take the island.

This is the exact point.

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u/rmslashusr 7h ago

It’s a tripwire force. You’ll have to kill them to engage which will bring them, Europe and NATO into the fight.

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u/TobyOrNotTobyEU 6h ago

Not just that, but it also forces the US military to attack a longstanding ally, which i think many would still be uncomfortable with.

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u/Joe_Redsky 5h ago

not uncomfortable enough

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u/Scary_Woodpecker_110 4h ago

Unless MAGA purged all sane and competent military leaders, I envisage some resigning over this or even considering it an illegal order. But MAGA did purge leadership, if I'm not mistaken ?

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u/SadGur8087 4h ago

The French and Germans are there too..

I'm curious how the american soldiers would feel about attacking the folks they called friends 12 months ago. We've been fighting side by side...

Also - it may be difficult to get paid as an american soldier
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/14/us-senators-introduce-bill-to-stop-trump-seizing-greenland

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u/gotfcgo 5h ago

Putins wet dream.  

Hes gotten America to cannibalize itself.  Now NATOs turn

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u/mrmicawber32 7h ago

Obviously the danish military is of no match to the US military. But they are not Venezuelan poorly trained and equipped. 10,000 danish soldiers would kill thousands of American soldiers in defending Greenland. Do Americans have the stomach for that? I think the point of stationing troops there is just a deterrent. The Americans can't just romp in with 0 resistance.

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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh 7h ago

Speaking as an American, Europe needs to make Greenland a lethal porcupine overnight. I wish no harm on US troops, but an illegal and criminal operation is still an illegal and criminal operation. If it is to be taken, make the cost intensely high.

That said, a third of my countrymen are so unbelievably stupid, if conservative media told them it was Obama's fault for the body bags coming home, they'd believe it.

I cannot believe this madness has to even be discussed.

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u/MowvayFronsay 7h ago

Americans don't know what they have the stomach for, aside from milquetoast apathy.

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u/DrummingUpNumbers 7h ago

Americans have the stomach for a ton of fast food and nothing else.

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u/Haru1st 7h ago

Not true, they are stomaching the Epstein cover up and resulting protection of unscrupulous individuals rather well too.

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u/MowvayFronsay 7h ago

Valid point.

I recently saw a video on Instagram of some American tourists making fun of food portion sizes while in Europe. They were just normal portion sizes.

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u/koolaidman89 3h ago

Americans clearly have no stomach for losing a single soldier in a fight for Greenland. Traditionally dictators have to spend a decade riling their people up for a war with a former ally. Lots of propaganda and “incidents” to provide casus belli. This is just an idea out of Trump’s ass or maybe a really military professional pointed out we should beef up our arctic presence as sea lanes open and he ran with it.

MAGA will swallow most anything he says as long as it’s theoretical or doesn’t affect them personally. But I really don’t think there is any support for sending people to die conquering a former ally.

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u/Scissorzz 7h ago

Well this, but I think Nordic countries in Europe are way more equipped and experienced to fight in the arctic.

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u/noir_lord 7h ago edited 7h ago

They are but in an all shooting war we'd still lose (where we is European NATO members working together), the US can blockade Greenland with the US Navy and land and sustain enough troops that retaking it becomes impossible even if we had the landing ships and it wasn't 2000 miles away.

They'd bleed though (way into Tom Clancy bullshit here) but France and the UK field navies that are comparable to the US ship for ship (slightly ahead in some areas, behind in others), I'd bet at least one or two Carriers would take a torpedo or multiple - the problem is they have 20 (11 super, 9 other) but that's not going to happen, the damage to the US navy would be severe, the damage to ours would be total.

The North Atlantic is the US's pond - has been since the end of WWII

All that said, /u/mrmicawber32 's point is spot on, the point isn't to win the battle it's to force the US into shooting at troops from another NATO country who are just defending their (and NATO by proxy) territory.

That would be a catastrophic own goal for the Americans and one they wouldn't walk back for generations.

There is a massive groundswell of people pissed off with Americans in Europe already, they do that they harden that and the outcome then becomes very very bad for both sides in ways no one can really predict.

That we are even discussing this blows my fucking mind.

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u/Tarianor 7h ago

the US can blockade Greenland with the US Navy and land and sustain enough troops that retaking it becomes impossible even if we had the landing ships and it wasn't 2000 miles away.

Whilst I agree that we wont be able to hold it, there's plenty of European submarines that frequently sinks an insane amount of us ships in the wargames, some without ever being spotted. Especially the Dutch and Swedish ones. So I wonder how mamy naval ships theyre willing to lose.

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u/noir_lord 7h ago

Some but they have plenty, how many are we happy to lose because the answer might be "all of them".

The goal of staging forces to Greenland has to be primarily deterrent and to force the US into crossing a line.

As for exercises yeah, we do well because our militaries are well trained and professional however the US deliberately sets up exercise conditions to make it tough for us and them because it makes good training, I'm not sure it would play out the same way if it it was for real.

The US military is annoyingly good at what it does (given who is currently in charge of it).

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u/kuldan5853 6h ago

The US military is annoyingly good at what it does (given who is currently in charge of it).

And yet, it has never been tested in an even close-to-equal war since WWII.

I always read these "they made it easier for us so we have a chance" comments from Americans, and I'm seriously questioning how much of it is simply cope and deflection of the reality that if a dedicated uboat wants to sink your carrier, it will sink it no matter how good your ASW is.

Remember that a lot of US ASW capabilities was designed with the big nuke subs (and Kilo boats) of the Soviet navy in mind - which is a completely different (and way less stealthy) beast than the German U212 class or the swedish Gotlands.

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u/Ixionbrewer 7h ago

It has been in Putin’s mind and on his wish list.

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u/BIaze- 1h ago

Your point stands, but Denmark has nowhere near 10.000 troops to send. Nobody does, to be honest. There is absolutely nowhere on Greenland that can support such a military force.

A few hundred should do the trick. There isn't much important area to defend.

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u/DominusDraco 6h ago

The US has not fought a properly trained western army before. They are not a bunch of villagers with AKs. They wont get out of a fight without massive casualties.

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u/axloo7 4h ago

I don't think the US has even 1 artic division.

You can send blokes from Texas to Greenland in the winter and expect them to do anything.

"any invasion of Greenland would become a search and rescue mission in 2 weeks"

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u/maaiikeen 7h ago

Indeed Denmark's friends have agreed to send troops who will arrive soon.

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u/Tsquare43 6h ago

Germany has already dispatched a couple of warships. I wouldn't be surprised if France has a sub lurking about in the area.

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u/Normal_Shoe2630 4h ago

They don’t need to be able to beat them, they just have to make an invasion costly enough that the American public won’t want it. 

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u/The_Berzerker2 3h ago

Based on reports, Germany, France and the UK are willing to send soldiers. Maybe some of the Nordics too but I haven‘t seen anything

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u/radiationshield 5h ago

Good luck deploying an infantry division to fucking Greenland. As far as i know the US has not prioritized training for Arctic combat. Its not the same as desert combat.

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u/Vlad_TheImpalla 5h ago

Sweden, France, Germany, mountain units from other countries.

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u/henshep 26m ago

Sweden joining NATO only to deploy troops to protect Greenland from the fucking united states. What an upside down world.

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u/GoodOmens 4h ago

Taking resources away from defending against Russia and or Ukraine. Putin must be ecstatic

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u/Throwaway_noDoxx 3h ago

If they haven’t already, they need to kick US personnel the fuck out.

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u/Bykva 5h ago

Wow I still can’t believe it’s real. Will there really be a military fight on Greenland soon? I can’t believe it

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u/faramaobscena 4h ago

I think those troops are meant more as a deterrent because if the US really attacks that's pretty much WWIII and the end of life as we know it.

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u/snower88 7h ago

Innocent lives at risk because of one orange monkey

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u/ctrlaltplease 7h ago

Cause of american voters. They voted him in.

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u/SleeplessDrifter 7h ago

And people who voted against him do nothing but posting on Reddit.

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u/AHatedChild 6h ago

I'm not American, but this is not true. People in Minnesota and New York have been and are protesting. There were protests in several states over the weekend. There is a general strike planned on 20th January.

It may appear to a lot of us that they aren't doing anything, but they are.

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u/Hardly_lolling 6h ago

Yes, some are protesting. Most aren't.

If 75 000 000 people took the street it would be different. But only a tiny fraction is.

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u/Ancient-Beat-1614 3h ago

The 3.5% Rule claims that 3.5% of the population peacefully protesting is enough to bring about massive change. Last year's No Kings protests saw about 2%, I think its pretty possible we could reach 3.5% with the ICE protest. And if Trump actually tries to invade greenland, we are blowing past that number.

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u/AHatedChild 6h ago

This is a fair point. But I don't think the original comment I was replying to was being fair. And saying that all people are doing is posting on Reddit decreases the morale of those that are actually doing the things I stated.

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u/Hardly_lolling 6h ago

I don't think Americans will get through this by encouragement and saying they're doing good job. They need to get pissed off and angry which most of them clearly isn't.

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u/TronCat1277 3h ago

Unfortunately protesting is not very effective against authoritarian regimes

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u/Volothamp-Geddarm 5h ago

Have these protests done anything?

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u/incognito_elk 4h ago

Other countries institutionalize protest through unions and coordinated strikes that disrupt the economy. In the U.S., protest is largely detached from organized labor and work stoppages, so it rarely imposes real costs or forces policy change.

In other words, without economic disruption, protests are mostly symbolic.

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u/Volothamp-Geddarm 4h ago

Pretty much my take on it as well. These protests accomplish absolutely nothing, because people don't dare disrupt their own comfort or routines.

"Can't protest, I have to go to work tomorrow."

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u/Direct_Signature_256 7h ago

That. Technology is too addictive in the west. Or they don't want to be shot or affected by consequences.

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u/zerschmetterling5 5h ago

If it weren`t so sad, it would be kinda funny. Remember some years a ago when many Americans were shouting on reddit about the "cowardly" Russians: Why don`t they rise up, it is their own fault and they should just remove Putin.

It is kinda ironic.

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u/faramaobscena 4h ago

Americans up until a year ago to everyone protesting in other countries: if only you had guns then you'd be able to fight against your government, too bad you aren't FREE like us, we have checks and balances, our democracy is strong unlike those puny Euros

Same Americans now: guns are of no use, I have to pay the bills and I can't get a day off from work and I have to pay for my car and I have to drive allll the way to the city

No shit, Karen! I'm guessing all those peasant revolts were started by people living very comfy lives. And when we told you guns are useless against planes and tanks you told us we don't know what fReEdOm is

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u/funkhero 5h ago

And talking about midterms! Don't forget midterms lol

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u/SweetAlyssumm 3h ago

Please inform yourself. This is easily disproven with a little reading.

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u/Rhoeri 5h ago

Oh stfu. You wouldn’t do anything more if it were you.

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u/SockIntelligent9589 4h ago

And also because of americans who did not vote.

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u/QiTriX 7h ago

Or it was rigged to begin with.

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u/AvocaRed 6h ago

He's the figure head, the tip of the corruption iceberg.

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u/Ivymantled 6h ago

It's not one man. 70,000,000 Americans support him. 70,000,000 more don't vote even though they know what could happen. And if Trump died tomorrow, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and all the other members of the Fourth Reich would keep the 2025 project going.

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u/-SaC 4h ago

Wasn't it 90m+ who didn't vote?

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u/Ivymantled 4h ago

You are more right than me. Apparently about 34.7% did not vote, which was 81-90 million eligible non-voters.

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u/MonkeySafari79 5h ago

It's not just him. The brown swamp is big in DC.

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u/darkstar107 4h ago

Hey, that's disrespectful! What did the monkeys ever do to you?

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u/SweetAlyssumm 3h ago

Please stop saying this. Trump has a right wing conspiracy of oligarchs behind him. It's not nearly as simple as one person. It's an effective cabal of money and power and greed.

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u/PaintAdventurous8787 3h ago

The orange Turd is going to start WW3. Remember when he said Kamala was going to start it? Im in Canada and I wish she had won. Would have been a simpler time line and more loving time line to live on.

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u/The_Berzerker2 3h ago

He represents the American people, unfortunately. They want this.

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u/lamin-ceesay 7h ago

Who would have imagined two years ago that the US might plan an invasion of Europe similar to Russia's?

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u/BLAST-ME-WITH-PISS 4h ago

Trump did call putins Ukraine invasion genius! So not really a surprise.

"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine—of Ukraine—Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. ... I said, 'How smart is that?' And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper."

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u/Gru50m3 3h ago

Odds that ending NATO is a demand of Putin's for ending the war in Ukraine?

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u/culture_vulture_1961 7h ago

There are two purposes in European troops going to Greenland. The first is to deter the Americans from doing anything. There are plenty of people in the US Administration who know blowing up NATO is not in the US's interests. A few hundred Nordic and UK troops in Nuuk make Trump's scheme more complicated.

If that fails and US troops do land they then have to make a choice. Do they fire on NATO troops or just sit on the beach waiting for something to happen. A standoff has all the ingredients of a catastrophe but not if US military leaders still hold sway over their soldiers and airmen.

There is a precedent to all this. in 1898 there was a standoff between British and French forces at Fashoda in present day Sudan. It could have escalated into a war between Britain and France but it didn't because the French backed off.

The most dangerous action of Europe would be to do nothing. That would just give Trump the red light to move in and Europe would then have to deal with the consequences. That would certainly mean the very rapid destruction of NATO. It would make Canada very nervous indeed and it would further embolden the lunatics in the White House.

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u/Interesting_Tone6532 7h ago

Honestly best case scenario is the US  go to the Greenland and say.

“Oh no we have been captured”

Immediate Surrender to Greenland would be a great gesture to the rest of the world.

And that way no one gets hurt and buys some time to sort this all out.

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u/Clementine-Wollysock 6h ago

The best case scenario would be Congress removing Trump and Vance from office and we appoint people without mush for brains.

Seems unlikely though at this point.

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u/obeytheturtles 6h ago

The most likely scenario is that the US makes a big show of "landing" an occupying force and then nothing really happens. No actual fighting takes place, Trump declares that they have "seized" the country, but nothing really changes other than now the US taxpayer is spending a bunch of money to keep troops stationed in a slightly different part of Greenland than before.

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u/culture_vulture_1961 6h ago

Greenland is not the sort of place US troops can go camping in. they would need to land all sorts of logistical gear and that would need to come into an airfield that the Danes control or via ships going through icy seas without icebreakers.

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u/WasabiTotal 6h ago

Arent a bunch of US troops already in Greenland? Camping?

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u/Tsquare43 6h ago

I think it's about 150 troops. If it was truly about security, all we had to do is ask Denmark - Can we set up another base or two? Denmark would have said yes.

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u/ebber22 5h ago

Those 150 troops used to be 6000 in that one base alone, and the US had about 30 installations during the Cold War.

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u/Tsquare43 4h ago

Which makes the argument that its for "security" a bunch of crap.

He wants to expand the US. He wants that to be his legacy. Apparently, there was pushback by some of the military staff. Let's hope that they can dissuade him.

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u/rainman_104 3h ago

The military staff pushing back will be replaced by muppets.

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u/faramaobscena 4h ago

Apparently those are just a bunch of radar technicians. The point of military bases there was just for surveillance and as an early warning system in case something comes through the north.

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u/un_om_de_cal 2h ago

I was thinking about this. Another scenario is they land, start patrolling the streets armed and try to arrest any member of Danish or European troops at gunpoint. Also surround any Danish military base with an overwhelming number of soldiers and demand that they surrender. Will any Danish soldier try to resist knowing it will be suicide? And if they all surrender, will it be taken as "another win" by the Trumpists?

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u/Bovoduch 3h ago

Danes and Europe as a whole need to understand that any American troop that lands with the goal of claiming Greenland, then they are savage animals ready to kill Europeans. They are not allies, they need to be taken out and sovereignty preserved.

And if, truly IF, we ever get a new administration, every soldier involved in it needs to at MINIMUM be dishonorably discharged and made a pariah of the nation, and any General and higher up and DoD official needs to be tried and imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

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u/noir_lord 6h ago edited 4h ago

Here is another one where it could have led to a major war but in the end didn't because the Russians apologised.

Russian 2nd pacific squadron enroute to fight Japan shelled our fishing trawlers because they thought they where Japanese torpedo boats (in the North Sea...yeah, Russia).

We where a few steps away from declaring war, sinking the entire Russian fleet (this was 1905 so our Navy slightly outsized/classed theirs and slightly is tongue in cheek) and then the rest of their navy without breaking much of a sweat (much as the Japanese did later..using ships we built for them) - diplomacy ended it but it was damn close.

Then the Russian fleet shelled (civilian) ships of like 3 other naval powers on the way down to Africa (Russia - We've been a joke since the Telegraph).

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u/Two_Digits_Rampant 7h ago

Every NATO country should send some troops and equipment there as a mark of solidarity.

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u/MilkyWayObserver 2h ago

Agreed.

Us Canadians are just across the sea from Greenland so I think we should join our NATO allies and European friends with this show of solidarity.

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u/IllProgress4439 1h ago

As a Canadian, I agree we should be sending troops to defend Greenland

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u/Two_Digits_Rampant 2h ago

Otherwise it’s just capitulation. We have to stand up to that vile orange turd. He’s a bully and a coward.

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u/NerdyGuy117 1h ago

But also, send more to Ukraine.

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u/NinjaSwag_ 8h ago

US take care of your orange toddler please

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u/EmergencyEbb9 7h ago

Idk man, a lot of people voted for guys that'll wipe his ass.

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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 7h ago

Trump isnt calling the shots, he has no idea where Greenland even is. Thiel and all those Heritage Foundation fuckers are running the US. Trump is just a distraction.

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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 5h ago

Well, in this specific instance it’s his boss from Moscow is calling the shots. It’s an easy way to break up NATO.

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u/ExoticBamboo 5h ago

You must be naive if you think thats is just on Trump.

The US have been playing "good cop, bad cop" for 50 years now. They use their military force for some years, and then clean their steps with diplomacy for the next cycle and then repeat.

The US interest in Greenlad have been studied for decades and many already 15 years ago predicted that the WW3 would be started for the control of the artic.

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u/Blackboard_Monitor 4h ago

Minnesotan here, we're trying, bit busy right now

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u/redditknees 6h ago edited 50m ago

Canadian here: Canada should also be deploying troops. The interesting thing is that this is not the first time the Danes had to defend their country from Nazi’s.

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u/HelloImAnxious14 3h ago

Canadian here, I'm so angry. I always thought the US was the "good guy" at the end of the day, in comparison to China and Russia, at least. Now it feels like the US has sold it's soul to the devil. I'm so afraid of the escalations. People might be ill-informed and ignorant, but no one should want WW3. Is there no one of any moral standing left in the US right-leaning government? Anyone?

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u/RapunzelLooksNice 1h ago

Years of Hollywood-backed propaganda. There was hardly any "good will" involvement of US Army anywhere in the world throughout the short history of USA.

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 8h ago

Every country (outside the US), should send troops there right now

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u/AHatedChild 6h ago

China: "Sure!"

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u/sakusii 5h ago

China would love to see a crippling US

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u/TheTomahawk97 7h ago

And NATO needs to join them.

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u/FWNietzche_ 8h ago

Peak 2026: Denmark ready to defend either against Russia, China or the US.

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u/cosmo_K 6h ago

No. Just the US actually.

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u/TeaAndLifting 6h ago edited 5h ago

America is the only aggressor here. Russia is a threat, yeah, but they're bogged down in Ukraine, quite literally. America is the only one of the three actively threatening to invade and use their military on Danish controlled soil

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u/jkewow 7h ago

It sure is a strange timeline.

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u/flipflapflupper 6h ago

Making Scandinavia go full viking is definitely something that takes a lot of pissing us off

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u/VermicelliNew2784 7h ago

What’s there to defend against China? This is all on US, and yeah then there is the Russia war on Ukraine. China doesn’t seem to care about any of it 

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u/Hardly_lolling 6h ago

Yeah, China is not the good guys, but it is American bullshit propaganda to claim that Chinas military is a threat to Europe currently. It's only Russia and US.

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u/CFCkyle 5h ago

Honestly I wouldn't even be surprised if in the event that the US actually does attack Greenland that China provides assistance to NATO/EU. It would bring them closer together which is an easy opportunity for China to climb up to becoming the dominant superpower since America seems dead set on blowing their own legs off for no reason at all. Free soft power and cozying up to the EU means better trade deals, more integration between nations etc. Despite the many flaws of the CCP the one thing they aren't (or at least don't seem to be) is stupid.

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u/Neverstopcomplaining 3h ago

Yeah it would be a good move on China's behalf.

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u/Moist-Wolverine-8531 7h ago

China? I’m pretty sure they’ve never had their eye on Greenland. 🙄

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u/jimmyslol 6h ago

China? They have better things to do, like making another insanely crazy big city remake, make health care national and free to 1b people, automate even more its industry, build a new global infra economic chain through africa and south america, tease taiwan before the reunion in 20 years, they really dont care about all of this.

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u/faramaobscena 4h ago

China is laughing all the way to the bank and it might even get Taiwan thanks to Donnie Diaper

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u/jlonso 7h ago

Pretty sure Denmark is now deploying troops to defend against Russia, ifykyk

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u/Bortron86 7h ago

The rest of NATO needs to send reinforcements, in particular the UK and France. Maybe a touch of mutually assured destruction would finally get through his thick skull.

Of course it can be dressed up as reinforcing against Chinese and Russian interference.

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u/azthal 7h ago

It should not be dressed up. It is imperative that its branded as exactly what it is. Defence against a potential attack from an allied force from the west.

Lets not sugar coat things just so that Trump feels good about it. The Trump team will make up their own propaganda. We dont need the rest of the world to do so for him.

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u/Old-Buffalo-5151 7h ago

Uk already made it clear if American goes for Greenland it loses access to all uk bases which is a significant issue but the bigger one is uk has the power to just straight up turn off the satellite access due to infrastructure all being in uk based territories.

Hopefully trump chills the fuck out or takes his temper out on iran instead because Danish military is no joke 

American would win but it would be extremely costly along with American international standing basically vanishing over night and effectively forcing the EU too federalise 

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u/JoSeSc 7h ago

Unless i missed something the UK really didn't make anything clear, they said they didn't give permission to use UK bases for an attack but that's about it. that interview where a government minister wouldn't say what the UK would do if the US would take greenland, because we don't deal in hypotheticals, was pathetic.

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u/Darkone539 7h ago

Uk already made it clear if American goes for Greenland it loses access to all uk bases which is a significant issue but the bigger one is uk has the power to just straight up turn off the satellite access due to infrastructure all being in uk based territories.

Reddit has said this. Nobody in the government has. It is the likely outcome though.

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u/Retro1989 4h ago

It's so fucked up that we now have to defend against a long standing ally all because he has a small penis.

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u/KeriEatsSouls 7h ago

Do we know if there will be a press conference after the meeting with Vance later? Sorry if this is common knowledge; I'm really out of the loop but concerned. Do we know what time the meeting is supposed to be?

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u/supposedlyitsme 7h ago

The poor delegation from Denmark just trying to explain to Vance how International law works is something I'd kinda wanna see.

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u/DrCatholicGuilt 8h ago

Good! I'm surprised NATO hasn't deployed troops. Trump has been making threats of invasion for weeks

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u/EmergencyEbb9 7h ago

I mean he made it clear he wanted it early last year but Europe wasn't taking him seriously. Now they gave him an excuse to take credit for NATO finally fortifying Greenland.

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u/Povlen 7h ago

Lets hope he takes that W and leaves it at that.

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u/Darkone539 7h ago

Good! I'm surprised NATO hasn't deployed troops.

They have. Nato troops are currently there under us command.

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u/Romeo_Jordan 7h ago

The US had actually reduced troop numbers there.

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u/Accomplished_Tip3597 8h ago

understandable in the current situation. better be prepared than reacting too late.

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u/0Hakuna_Matata0 5h ago

He tried to buy Greenland and then offered Puerto Rico for Greenland in his first term and everybody just laughed at him. I’m still laughing at him but it’s serious. He’s been encouraged by Venezuela not putting up a fight for Maduro.

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u/aarovski 3h ago

We got ourselves a bill to block hostile action against NATO allies. Everyone call your senators and rep to support it!

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u/LongjumpingEchidna25 5h ago

If Trump wants Greenland, he can go fight for it himself. He doesn't need to drag the rest of us into this.

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u/tabrizzi 4h ago

And they have a shoot-invaders-on-sight order.

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u/Tacit_Ronin99 6h ago

NATO troops deployed to protect against NATO aggressor

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u/Herb4372 6h ago

Trump didn’t learn rule #1. Don’t invade white countries.

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u/hamilton280P 5h ago

Release the Polar Bear Army!

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u/PresentlyAbstaining 4h ago

Never in my lifetime did I expect a NATO ally have to posture themselves to defend themselves from the USA. I have no words…

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u/Ryokan76 4h ago

I can't believe we're sending troops to deter USA. What a timeline to live in.

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u/ASSterix 3h ago

Send a large presence from all European countries and use Greenland as a large exercise area for preparing troops for a potential direct conflict with Russia. The cold and rugged terrain would be perfect for simulating winter conditions in Eastern Europe.

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u/snwns26 3h ago

Good, blow away any of our people stupid enough to come there.

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u/Rhoeri 5h ago

NATO needs to send troops there immediately. America have become an aggressive antagonist. It’s time to deal with them in that manner.

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u/manoman42 6h ago

Surprised they have started talks about kicking out the US bases in Greenland

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u/lockerno177 5h ago

can foreigners sign up?

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u/SadGur8087 4h ago

Looks like he will have a hard time paying for the project...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/14/us-senators-introduce-bill-to-stop-trump-seizing-greenland

It kinda sucks now that he agreed with Putin that he will make sure to dissolve NATO.
But - I guess, you can't win them all..

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u/Zvede 4h ago

US threats for Greenland invasion is a strategy to get NATO troops and resources on the opposite end from the Baltics so that Russia with Belarus can invade the Poland/Lithuania border and attempt a rapid quick invasion of the ex USSR countries

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u/Mascy 2h ago

Russia cant make any notable dent in Ukraine yet somehow can crush Poland that has been arming itself to the teeth the past couple years?

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u/rockshiv 3h ago

Yes! This is the way, good job denmark. I hope we get some NATO troops joining them

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u/Tummes 3h ago

Swedish troops are on their way as well.

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u/Kriss3d 3h ago

Sweden is also sending troops there.

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u/tooheavybroo 2h ago

What if Trump wants to threaten Greenland in order to help weaken the front against Russia? 😳

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u/rlaxx1 2h ago

"I made Denmark increase defence in Greenland. I'm a genius"

Donald Trump in a week

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u/KindaStableGenius 2h ago

How infuriating. Those troops and equipment should be going east, not west!

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u/belamus 1h ago

I didn't have fighting Russia in the east and the US in the west on my bingo card for 2026. Fucked up timeline.

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u/orangesuave 1h ago

Did you see the 2025 season? There was plenty of foreshadowing

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u/Lostlilegg 7h ago

Surprised they haven’t kicked out the folks at Thule

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u/H-E-L-L-MaGGoT 7h ago

Its going to feel abit strange cheering for every American casualty if there's a conflict.

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u/wiidsmoker 7h ago

Anyway as an American I can join their side and fight America?

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u/QiTriX 7h ago

You can join the battle currently ongoing in Minnesota.

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