Its small enough numbers that its symbolic for defence, but attacking so many countries militaries will be an act of war against the EU and draw all of NATO and the EU into a war. Multiple countries in this are also nuclear powers. I really wish the USA would see sense, but its fallen to fascist rule and once again fascism is bringing enormous wars to the world and this one is going to be much deadlier than those previous. Lets hope the orangutan decides its not worth it like he has with Iran.
It wouldn’t draw the NATO to war. It would be the end of NATO.
You think a NATO without the US could not exist at all?
If the US killed EU soldiers, it might go rather differently than you think.
No EU country will send troops against the US.
They just did. They are certainly not in Greenland to defend it against say Thailand.
and - what do you think I’m thinking? And what do you think would happen in that hypothetical case?
It will remove a rogue element from NATO. Fuck the US military.
The NATO would cease to exist. Countries would need to decide which NATO country to stand by, and, seriously, NONE would oppose the USA. Thus, no NATO anymore.
And Russia rubs its hands in glee at having divided the West. Great job, MAGA.
MAGA likes Russia. They will feel no remorse. They’re authoritarians that enjoy what Russia is up to.
It turns out fascism was the real domino theory all along
MAGA = Make America Go Away
Great headline but apparently it’s the great total of 13 soldiers.
Which is enough for the purpose. Denmark invited to come together and talk about ways to support Greenland. So they are not there to defend (yet), but to survey and get an idea of the conditions.
This, and it’s also a form of deterrence in itself. It means that if the US attacks Greenland, they’ll potentially have to kill not just Danish, but also German, French etc soldiers, permanently fucking up relations with those countries beyond repair.
I can already hear Merz: Yes 12 german soldiers died in this very complex situation. But, now is not the time to overreact. The americans are very reliable partners and we should not endanger this relationship just because a view soldiers were killed by accident.
P.s. lets tortur some asylum seekers and send the police to brutalize some “left wing extremists” (climate protesters).
I wouldn’t say permanently, I mean France and Germany have overcome a lot in the last century.
But for the next several decades absolutely. Maybe I’m being a bit pedantic
As zitronenschnitte@feddit.org said, they are there as a scouting group in preparation for a larger contingent.
Anyway, they already are a deterrent, because of their presence, any attack on Greenland risks being an attack on every single country that has sent soldiers for its defence, no matter how few.
Their presence is also a very robust assurance of support, because having one’s troops attacked is way harder to ignore or brush aside than a verbal assurance or some piece of paper.
I know it’s a good first step. I just wanted to highlight, that the headline, although technically the truth, is a bit sensationalist. Also I don’t think Trump will be impressed by that. But I can see how sending a small team is also a strong indirect message to Trump.
Thirteen is just the German contingent, but the other countries are sending similarly small numbers for now. However, this small group is a recon mission, not intended as a fighting force. They’re going there to make a plan for their armies, not to be the army
Yeah sending some troops from multiple european countries is a strong message indeed. I just think Trump won’t be impressed by that and opt for force anyways.
If I understood the news correctly those 13 are send to make preparations for a larger unit.
/edit: Apparently, the wording is: ,The aim is to explore framework conditions for securing the region."
…wishy-washy, but better than nothing, I suppose.
That practically doubled the population
That’s funny, I get it. As Europeans, we can make that joke.
Just like, as a Dutch person, I can make jokes about casting Friesland into the Northsea. But if some fuck like Trump starts talking shit about Friesland, than they’ll have to endure my strongly worded comments on alternative social media.
Same goes for Greenland
Then*
They explicity leave it vauge against whom greenlends needs to be defended.
intresting to hear from what is basically germanys “propaganda” channel (the propagande being: look how neutral our news is. tangent: the japanese channel NHK world is basically travel documentaries and “look how delicous our food is”, and well russia has a different aproach with russia today xD)
The Swedish prime minister kept repeating the word “övning” (“exercise”, as in training) in interviews yesterday.
But is ok. It is called diplomacy. Everybody knows exactly what all of this is and why.
It is difficult and fucking weird that we have to deploy troops to defend our allies from our other supposed allies.
There is a word for those so-called supposed allies that describes more accurate what they actually are: Enemies.
We need no enemies with allies like that
It is difficult and fucking weird that we have to deploy troops to defend our allies from our other supposed allies.
Yes. And - of all the things - the rogue country being the one that brought the alliance together in the firstplace.
Which is why it was the first and primary target for the most successful psyops campaign in history.
