The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in acquiring the Danish territory.
we’re living in the weirdest time line
Where generals apparently don’t look at defense maps and see the biggest base in Greenland is American anyway… We already have troops there we’re just being petulant about who gets the mineral rights.
If this is how the US acts when they are being petulant, I think we as Europeans should act quickly and start preparing for the worst and start moving troops. They are right now threatening with invasion I can’t even fathom how they behave when they are down right belligerent.
They should and they have been since before the first trump presidential race.
@sucius1 it’s a rather unique moment in history. Never before the Europeans as a whole were at odds with the US and thought that we need to do something to stop the US from acquiring new land from us.
Sure, they fought the Spanish to get states like Texas or California if I recall correctly (or maybe some other states from other colonial powers), but we never as a whole thought about teaming up to detter the US from doing something to us.
One consequence that I see is that if the Western Europeans decide to move on and really do something about Greenland, then they will also engage the Eastern Europeans to join, who are having a hard time with Russia. Might be a tit-for-tat move that everyone might benefit from.
<details class=“spoiler”><summary>Reveal/hide</summary>(I don’t know if spoilers from Friendica federate over Lemmy) It also means that we should think more seriously about nukes.</details>