US Congress members visit Denmark as Trump's pressure on Greenland rises (www.bbc.com)

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[-] fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Why even approve their travel visas? Turn that plane around.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 months ago

Coons and the majority of the delegation are Democratic opponents of Trump

[-] fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

The work they need to do right now is in Washington, not Greenland.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

[+] Lembot_0006@programming.dev -11 points 8 months ago

Very brave. Yeah. How many times have your country tell the USA to fuck off?

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

They can't fight everyone at once...but most countries are trying to delay that united front for some reason.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 8 months ago

It's a big club

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social -2 points 8 months ago

They certainly could fight the paltry military of Europe altogether, particularly with a second front already in Ukraine.

Europe is in a horrible strategic position due largely to outsourcing their defense to the very country now demanding tribute in the form of territory.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When I mean everyone, I mean the whole world, they're picking fights with everyone, not just the EU. Everyone's patience has a limit.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

Europe has their own military gear they produce though. Everything we have they have a version, albeit slightly less advanced. They are way more advanced than Russia militarily. But yeah they haven't been investing in it because the US has the bases and the armies and navies doing all of that since the great war.

But they are not in that bad of a position. It is just they have bad leadership, like everyone else, and that bad leadership will lead a far right supported by Russia and the US to win elections sooner or later, then fix themselves in power and join the US and Russia in running fascist autocracies. Even if that far right in those countries doesn't know it yet. And the US and their factions of billionaires will be helping them.

So if Europe got good leadership offering popular reform they could easily hold their own. They won't though so are in a bad position. They are too busy surrendering to tech and ai, trying to haul the trojan horse inside the walls.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, Europe has a slightly crumbier version of most of the normal military equipment that the US has. The problem is that they have like 5 of them and the US has about a thousand.

For example, Germany has a really good MBT, maybe even better than anything the US has, or at least better than most of what the US would actually field. Nerds will fall all over themselves to compare and tease out exactly which is better, but here is the thing that really matters:

Germany has about 300 of them. The US has 2,500 ready to deploy main battle tanks that might or might not be better than theirs (but are undoubtedly pretty close) and another 2,000 or so in reserves.

Europe has not prepared themselves for war against anyone, let alone a peer military. The US has.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

Europe has not prepared for war because every time Europe wanted to prepare for war the US pushed in the other direction. No common army, no better weapons, no nuclear weapons, ... All that was anathema. De Gaulle was right and the rest of Europe should have listened to him since decades ago.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 8 months ago

Given that France developed and deployed their own nuclear weapons it kind of seems that option was available to the rest of Europe but they decided not to.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 8 months ago

De Gaulle wanted a self-defense system for France. The rest were stupid and relied on the US.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Fuck off. We don't want people with that kind of hatred here in Denmark.

[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 14 points 8 months ago

We don't want them here, either. Perhaps there's some neutral geographic feature between us that would welcome them unconditionally.

[-] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I'm normally against dumping trash into the ocean, but I think I can make a few exceptions here

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago

What about at Point Nemo

The oceanic pole of inaccessibility, also known as Point Nemo, is located at roughly 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W and is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. It represents the solution to the "longest swim" problem. The problem entails finding such a place in the world ocean where, if a person fell overboard while on a ship at sea, they would be as far away from any land in any direction as possible. It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, and is equally distant from the three closest land vertices which are each roughly 2,688 km (1,670 mi) away.

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

6 feet under?

[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Now Denmark can experience some American bipartisanship first hand.

"You must all reach across the aisle and let the Republicans run your country. If you don't, Donald Trump will be very very upset. He might even kill a few of you. But I assure you that everything will be okay if you just let it happen. Scouts honor!"

[-] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Greenland should offer to sell it for one quadrillion dollars. Lend the US the money and catch them in a debt trap they can never escape.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 months ago

They should have told them to fuck off.

[-] pir8t0x@ani.social 20 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure they already did 😹 Danish MP Tells Trump to F*** Off

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 8 months ago

Except the US still owes money to Spain for Florida.

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Putting any price on it would be a self-defeating move

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 8 months ago

I'd not fall for that placatium sauce.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

Capture them, use as leverage

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

That wouldn’t work, as Trump probably already wants to deport them as traitors.

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