(01-18-2026, 05:38 AM)Ninurta Wrote: I've heard two conflicting stories on the European troops going to Greenland. One is that they are going there to "fight the US", and the other is that they are going there to "assist the US in actions against Russia and China". I don't know which is true, and don't much care. It's not a place I'd go to voluntarily - it's more like the Rura Penthe Klingon penal colony out of Star Trek.
Norway sent 2 troopers to the Greenland "coalition of the willing".
TWO.
Germany is sending 18.
So far, that's a grand total of 20 troops to thwart the entire US military ambition. Seems like they may have an overinflated opinion of their military prowess.
Maybe the Germans are only going there to keep the French contingent in line. 18 Germans would probably be enough. If they run into trouble with that task, the Norwegians will doubtless be of immense assistance.
I've not heard how many Frenchmen or Englishmen are being sent. Might be enough to double the entire contingent to about a heavy platoon strength...
And it's STILL much ado about nothing, a bar-room brawl among alleged "friends" over a goddamned ice cube.
Wonders never cease. I'm still looking in other directions... ANY other directions... for what's really going on behind that Greenland facade.
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Sending troops to Greenland isn't about fighting America it's about sending a message to America , numbers are irrelevant at this point.
Just as with his illegal intervention in Venezuela trump's interest in Greenland is about resources.
Quote:Nonetheless, Greenland possesses an impressive array of critical minerals, from traditional commodities such as copper, lead, and zinc that have been mined on a small scale in ice-free coastal areas since 1780, to modern critical minerals essential for energy and defense technologies.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatch...hnologies.
Imposing 10% tariffs on your long term allies because they disagree with your course of action is not the action of a leader of the free world they are that of a dictatorship , I cannot and will not support that.
I think the threat to Greenland could be little more than Trump finding an excuse to pull America out of NATO , squabbling between the US and its allies only benefits Russia and China.