US - Greenland Crisis Thread

[celedhring]

Surreal. Not helping credibility of our states.

To be frank, I don't think most Euro states can mobilize an actual unit in such a short timespan to an Arctic climate. I suspect there might not be enough ready facilities either.

Of course, means we'll need to get these things prepared now.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Netherlands and Canada are sending troops as well.

We are sending 1 (one) soldier. So troop, not troops.

He will be exceptionally tall though, so that helps to partly make up for the lack of numbers.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

The indications from France and Sweden are that the contingents they are sending right now are just advance teams to coordinate with the Danes and prep for the arrival of additional forces.  I assume it's similar for others.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, Greenland in midwinter is not a very hospitable place. we really would look like fools if we sent several battalions of troops only for them to freeze.

[Valmy]

Netherlands and Canada are sending troops as well.

We are sending 1 (one) soldier. So troop, not troops.

He will be exceptionally tall though, so that helps to partly make up for the lack of numbers.

Well I wish CC the best of the luck.

[crazy canuck]

They told me Greenland is lovely this time of year

[Tamas]

[Jacob]

Estonia is apparently also sending someone.

[Valmy]

If they have one dude from every ally of Denmark they might be able to form a platoon or so.

[celedhring]

I can go.

[Norgy]

Despite Trump saying Denmark can't be trusted, I think this will just peter out in nothing but another blemish on the trans-Atlantic partnership. Can you still say trans-Atlantic in the US, or do you get deported?

[Grey Fox]

I think it depends on how violent Minnesota gets in it's anti-ICE revolt.

[Valmy]

Despite Trump saying Denmark can't be trusted

Based on what? Denmark has been nothing but a reliable partner.

I just don't get it.

[Jacob]

It feels like Trump's government has become a revolving series of "let's manufacture a crisis to take attention away from the last crisis we manufactured"

Though I guess the Minnesota thing is about swinging the scales for the midterms - whether it's to gin up his supporters (look we're repressing the people who need repressing), to justify election interference, or to move the Overton window on using violence against political opponents.

[Jacob]

Based on what? Denmark has been nothing but a reliable partner.

I just don't get it.

He was actually pretty explicit at one point in explaining it.

Basically, as I recall it, he said that if he owned Greenland he knew he'd defend it. If someone else owns Greenland, he wasn't sure he'd get around to defending it, regardless of any commitments he's made, because it wasn't his.

So the unreliability he's talking about is his own. The US not owning Greenland is a security risk for the US because Denmark cannot - in his view - be relied on to defend Greenland single-handedly and the US cannot be counted on to keep its commitments.