Yo britain, you wanna rule the waves again? Now is your time to take back the rebbel colonies
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I got bone spurs though.
Serious question, if the states did invade somewhere, whether it's Greenland, Canada or Panama, what countries would actually be willing to use military force to stop them?
Would they end up going to China for aid?
They won't fight. They will let it happen.
We might find out this year.
Greenland isn’t for sale, and coercion isn’t diplomacy. This will backfire internationally.
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at this point, that seems to be the goal
War on the continent and suspended elections.
Seems petty obvious.
The United States of America is a rogue state.
Trump is a Russian asset. Americans have become the taliban of the West.
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This asshole is the kind of bumbling cartoonishly psychotic politician you read about on surviving pre-bomb terminals in Fallout.
I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying "incredible people".
Watch the clip again if you didn't notice.
It's perfectly reasonable that they don't want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an "unacceptable human view".
I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn't translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It's just disgusting. It doesn't matter who or what they're talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they're really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.
I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.
You know, you could always just buy their raw materials.
It’s a very small population, but a very, very large piece of land.
Sounds like the king of clowntown has been looking at a Mercator projection again. It's an easy mistake for people who don't know what they're talking about to make.
I stole this from reddit:
And this interest in Greenland smacks of the game of "Risk", which might be the basis of his foreign policy.
I'm which case, he should mass forces on New Zealand.
It's still a very large peice of land.
This has interesting maps https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0
He's said "very very".
Looks like it's maybe the size of Florida? Is that about right? I'll go look it up sometime when I have the time time time time time time time time time time time time time time.
More like a couple Texi
that made me laugh. ah, texus.
It's still, like, a quarter of the US landmass (eyeball measurement), which is big
The total area of Greenland is 2.1 million km², but where other countries have usable land and maybe some lakes, Greenland has 1.7 million km² of ice. There's some land under there, but much less than you might think:
Topographic map of Greenland (Wikipedia)
The US has 9.1 million km² of actual land, so if we're counting the ice, a quarter is about right.
oh wow, there's a whole pond in the middle ! wonder if it's salty
there’s a whole pond in the middle
Well yes, but actually no.
That part in the middle is land that has a miles-thick pile of ice on top of it. There's probably not any significant amount of liquid water on that land under the ice right now, and (in the long term) there probably still wouldn't be any liquid water on it because isostatic rebound would cause the land to lift if the ice were removed. I haven't found any sources that definitively claim whether the magnitude of the rebound would be enough to get all of it above sea level, but my guess is that it would.
That's mad, thanks for the link. Simply fascinating
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Danish special forces are watching you...
Who do you think trained them?
The danish military. Side note, the USA does their cold weather training in Norway in terrain that local civilians ski/hike recreationally, and in temperatures that are significantly higher than those in Greenland. You are right that there is an exchange of expertise in NATO, but it's the Scandinavians that do the training when it comes to cold weather / mountain warfare. The USA's specialty is urban counterinsurgency and bombing Africans.
US had and still may have bases on Greenland.
Yes very remote and isolated bases. Very much dependent on resupply by sea. Yeah it'd be a dick move to destroy the bases power generation capabilities during a -40 winter, but these are the times we live in I guess.
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