• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    The political message from Europe has to be clear and forceful: If you touch Greenland, that will be the end of US military bases on the European continent (including Ramstein).

    Nobody actually said that, there’s an US military base in greenland already.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah but that’s the point. Either you run your bases in cooperation with the host countries, or your established military presence becomes too great of a threat to the sovereignty of the host country to be allowed to continue

    • MoreMagic@feddit.nu
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      8 hours ago

      That’s what’s so fucked up about all this. USA have downsized their military presence on Greenland by 99% since its peak. Neither Greenland, nor Denmark has opposed them to scale up again. They (Denmark/Greenland) have also declared they’re willing to let US mine for resources.

      This seems like nothing but a fixation in Trump about increasing US land area, to boost his personal legacy.

      • hector@lemmy.today
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        8 hours ago

        It is putin’s bidding, prez does not have the juice to pull out of nato otherwise.