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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’ve not been following super closely for mental health reasons, but if it is just Denmark? We are looking at another Ukraine.

Ukraine's armed forces alone are 15x the total population of Greenland. This is more of a Grenada than a Ukraine.

Whereas, if we start seeing other EU/NATO nations deploying troops to protect Greenland… there is a chance that SOMETHING remains and we don’t just have russia running over everyone else one by one.

I would be much more worried about the power projection of the world's largest military by a factor of 20 than the country currently caught in a quagmire halfway into the Donbas.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The US could theoretically take island in days with raw force, but if a coalition Europe force holds enough territory to bring in more troops through then it's going to be a bloody brutal slog.

All becuase roughly half of America voters preferred a pedophile war criminal over a relatively normal politician

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but she had a weird laugh and a less than ideal reply to a gaza question.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Lordy we are fucked.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 23 hours ago

Ukraine's armed forces alone are 15× the total population of Greenland

The Forsvaret (Danish Army) has the obligation to also defend autonomous territories of Denmark, i.e. Greenland and Faroe Islands. Its personnel is 100,000.

Ukraine now has 6 times more army personnel than before the war (~2022).