US - Greenland Crisis Thread

[Tamas]

[Tamas]

Everyone is on and on about how the whole failing of NATO is some broader geostrategic thing, but I suspect there are only two aspects to it:

1. the MAGA fascists have a natural ideological ally in Russia - so it's a political, not a national, agenda, at least not until elections are rigged/cancelled

2. Trump cannot understand the concept of an alliance like NATO. Like Putin and the Russians he understands force and the threat of it. If he can strongarm somebody, that's a relationship he can understand. If he is told to back away or there will be consequences, that he can understand. But a relationship where mutual interests are served in a (compared to his brain capacity) complex way - that he cannot compute, and if he cannot compute it then he must be taken advantage of.

[mongers]

So trump want Dutch, French and Spanish troops to 'occupy' parts of America?

Fixed!

American Revolution reference, the US needs all the support it can get against the Brits. 

Yes, that would be the next 'logical' step, make the Brits the ultimate baddies in MAGA world, then he could pile in with lots of royal family/lizard conspiracy junk. :Bowler:

[Duque de Bragança]

So trump want Dutch, French and Spanish troops to 'occupy' parts of America?

Fixed!

American Revolution reference, the US needs all the support it can get against the Brits. 

Yes, that would be the next 'logical' step, make the Brits the ultimate baddies in MAGA world, then he could pile in with lots of royal family/lizard conspiracy junk. :Bowler:

I feel a bit sad about Farage, who would be left out of the deal. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Trump cannot understand the concept of an alliance like NATO.

Of course not.  As the MAGAts' favorite half-assed painting corporal once said, "Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless".

[crazy canuck]

I think this clip is a good way to summarize the recent events

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT1VO_oAW-V/?igsh=MTgwanZ4cm5sZTlrcA==

[Jacob]

Two month old video on the US vs the rest of NATO invading Greenland

I thought it pretty interesting:

[viper37]

He's going to send the Marines and they refuse to get out of their trucks when it's too cold.  They're safe.  Airborne might take the airport if left unwatched though.

[Legbiter]

Airborne might take the airport if left unwatched though.

It is not. Everything about a sudden seizure of Nuuk when the defending forces are led by a commander-in-chief who cut his teeth in Bosnia-Herzegovina and doing SOF raids in Afghanistan will be Extremely Bad TV for the Americans. The Nordics have heavily armed arctic troops on the ground, wholesale support of the local population and a French carrier task force loitering nearby. Also a paradrop at this time of year? 

[viper37]

Airborne might take the airport if left unwatched though.

It is not. Everything about a sudden seizure of Nuuk when the defending forces are led by a commander-in-chief who cut his teeth in Bosnia-Herzegovina and doing SOF raids in Afghanistan will be Extremely Bad TV for the Americans. The Nordics have heavily armed arctic troops on the ground, wholesale support of the local population and a French carrier task force loitering nearby. Also a paradrop at this time of year? 

Well, not this time of the year, no.
More like when their guard is down later on and some troops have left.

[Legbiter]

Locals are noting a lot more military presence around Greenland.





Greenlandic independence movement now more patriotic than their opponents ever were before this crisis. Winning the battle of Greenland would result in death-by-hunting-rifle as the leading cause of death for American occupation soldiers.

[Legbiter]

Well, not this time of the year, no.
More like when their guard is down later on and some troops have left.

That's the point, they will never leave. Fortifications will continue to be built up. Patriotic civil preparedness on steroids will continue (many Greenlanders are caching supplies, ammo, alternative cottages to relocate family to, etc).

They are displaying the sort of admirable civic resilience the Trump-voting burger mutts would get heart palpitations from the thought of ever doing.