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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/world/p/1191953/us-to-build-two-military-bases-in-greenland-under-new-deal-with-denmark

The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark's sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.

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[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 123 points 5 days ago

I'm no military strategist, but normally if a country threatens to take over your territory you don't let them build military bases there.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

These bases won't be operational for years, by which time we'll likely be rational again.

And with the US carrier strategy, this doesn't really make attacking Greenland any easier or more likely.

They're not building from scratch, but one is abandoned and one was only used by dog sledders...

The current US government isn't exactly competent, this is not a short term threat.

It also says that "no state that is not a member of Nato shall be allowed to establish its own manned or unmanned military installations in Greenland nor shall they be allowed a persistent presence of military forces in Greenland".

And locks us into NATO in the meantime, which is a short term threat

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I hope we will be rational again in a couple years. It took trials and decades of divided Germany to mostly fix the scourge of Nazism. We might have to ban all MAGA speech and symbols, which would be an interesting Constitutional challenge.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

Buddy...

Like, you for real think trump leaving office will be as big of a deal as the Nazis losing WW2?

Shits fucking bad, to an unacceptable level...

But it's nowhere near actually nazi bad, even though most of Trump's admin wants it to be. Like, the reason it was so hard post WW2, is even German children were conscripted into the Nazi military. They were actually fighting in a war, and carried that damage with them after the war

That alone is a massive difference.

trump disappearing from American politics will be much closer to GW leaving office than hitler shooting himself.

By 2030 I fully expect most Republicans to claim they never personally supported trump just like they did after GW left office.

But all that needs to happen to keep them out of office is not having the only option be a neoliberal. And since neoliberals can't win fair elections and the current DNC will run fair primaries, we don't

[-] DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I feel like it's almost early Mousilini bad...

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not saying MAGA is as bad as Nazi Germany (yet), but the lawbreaking, ethics violations, and constitutional infringements will take many many years to process. It's been multiple things by so much of the administration every damn day.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

but the lawbreaking, ethics violations, and constitutional infringements will take many many years to process.

None of that started with trump...

trump just sucks at hiding it.

And it's as easy of a fix as electing a decent president. The reason that used to be hard, was neoliberals controlling the DNC for 30+ years.

The reason it stopped being hard, is neoliberals don't control the DNC.

Like, two years ago people would have said it would take decades to route out the corruption in the NYC mayora office.

It was actually pretty easy. Mamdani's big secret is he's just genuinely trying to fix shit

That works on a national level as well

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It would be great to have a president I was enthusiastic about. Obama sorta, Carter was a good man but not a great president.

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