France to send troops to Greenland for joint exercise with several European countries
(www.lemonde.fr)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 2026 12:23
https://lemmy.world/post/41655810
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Jan 2026 12:23
https://lemmy.world/post/41655810
The move follows an announcement by Denmark that it will increase its military presence in Greenland immediately.
After meeting with the US vice president and secretary of state, the Danish foreign minister said it was ‘clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland.’
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Hopefully mango man can read the room on this one and let it go. We don’t need to start another war.
Trump absolutely loathes NATO and Europe in general. I guarantee they’re war gaming all the scenarios right now. I have little faith in Europe as they can’t even fucking get it together enough to stomp out an imperial march on their borders from a much weaker foe.
NATO is controlled by the US and Europe is an US colony, there are more than a thousand US military facilities in europe.
I highly doubt the idea for invading Greenland comes from him, but rather the people manipulating him who would perhaps benefit from the instability caused by a war between the US and EU.
Undoubtedly.
The US Government’s posturing, diplomatic and otherwise, for rights in the the Arctic and northern territories has been happening at least since the Obama administration. It’s a recognition that climate change is going to make it feasible to mine and drill in these places that were previously inaccessible.
It’s the tech bros
responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-greenland-billion…
This doesn’t pass my smell test.
You are the one being manipulated, there are more than a thousand US military facilities in europe, these operations are to fool people like you into not complaining about wasting public money to boost military spending.
The entire point of this is to break up NATO and start a two front war against Europe by both the US and Russia. Didn’t you get the memo?
I was just thinking the same thing. Where does that leave Canada? Do they join the EU or get eaten up by the US?
Canada is a big well run country as opposed to the US which is flailing and failing at an astounding pace. US economic numbers are being obscenely cooked .
“….we’re seeing this new technique of the leaders of these companies — the investors, owners, CEOs — are now able to make money even if the companies never make money. That’s new. It started a little over ten years ago, and I’ll give you Uber as an example. Before they went public, Uber had only ever lost money. Billions and billions of dollars. And yet, their investors were still able to make billions of billions of dollars in profit by making this thing public and recouping that money on IPO day.”
Why can’t other NATO countries just say “we are still NATO but the US isn’t”.
They’re treaties. They’re whatever the participants say they mean.
I would like to see Canada send some as well.
mexico too!
Damn does Mexico even have arctic gear?
They do
newsweek.com/greenland-germany-sending-troops-nat…
Our Artic Rangers to do some additional cold weather training
Solidarity, baby. Dig it.
Even if the US doesn’t try some shit, this will be good boreal forest and tundra training for when Russia tries some shit.
NATO: pushes back against an aggressive nation, in defense of its members.
Trump: Noooo not like that
There are more than a thousand US military facilities all over europe, in greenland too, no politician in charge ever said shit about it. These military exercises sound like yet another gift to the war industry and to rulers, who through fear and manipulation keep empowering themself.
I can recommend a Belle of the Ranch video explaining how the EU is looking at possibly raising an EU army of 100,000. Coincidentally the number of US troops stationed in the EU is about 100,000.
Edit added the link - youtu.be/Wi-k7disQSc