Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

throwa356262

Those Danes should study the Falklands war. Using F35 in this situation is like brining in a billion dollar paperweight to the battle.s

jacquesm

Of course they were. The United States has never before damaged its own reputation in Europe as much as they did in the last 12 months. And the same goes for Canada, possibly worse. You don't go around threatening your allies unless you really have plans and that's why you don't elect senile old guys to positions of power.

Peritract

That is a very reasonable response to the threats they faced.

matsemann

Russia's invasion ironically strengthened NATO, with more countries joining or feeling the usefulness of it. Somehow the US managed to break down all that good will in such a short amount of time.. I think it's hard to overstate how much more hostile people look at the US the last few years. So much soft power has been lost.

silvestrov

> * The Danish public broadcaster DR reports ...* This is the source article (in Danish) for the bluesky posts: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forbered...

crispyambulance

There's a difference between "posturing" for show and actually "preparing for war". They're wise to the fact that "the Stable Genius" isn't going to try anything violent with Denmark/Greenland, but they still want to prevent him thinking about just stealing territory "peacefully."

Trasmatta

The US president wanted to start a full on war with Europe over Greenland of all places. And he still might. And some people will still claim I just have "TDS".

SideburnsOfDoom

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

smcin

Source cited by @chriso-wiki.bsky.social is this article on DR.dk, the Danish public broadcaster: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forbered...

seydor

You mean, they are not anymore?

wewewedxfgdf

What else would they be doing, watching TV?

fergie

Thats probably what this was all about then (use Google Translate) -> https://www.nrk.no/norge/gradert-sak-behandlet-i-ekstraordin...

kelipso

Lol there is posturing and there is whatever this is.

polotics

Tu as le droit de perdre, mais tu n'as pas le droit de te faire surprendre. (You have the right to lose, but you do not have the right to be caught off guard.)

emmelaich

The idea that the US would attempt to take Greenland by force is utterly ludicrous.

hermannj314

France offering support to little ententes to prevent facist revanchism. Seems familiar. World tension continues to increase.

KaiMagnus

And this is, in my opinion, why support at Hormuz shouldn’t even be on the table. How can you possibly hold joint patrols when you were just months ago planning full scale war between each other?

krona

I live very close to one of the USAF's largest European airbases. While Trump was trolling European leaders about their security posture (by threatening to relieve them of sovereign territory which the US already has extensive access to) the USAF was already moving assets in the opposite direction to the middle east (this was mid-january). It's fairly easy to work out what's happening if you ignore the orange man and listen to what serious people are saying, what they've briefed on, how they contradict one another, and where the assets are moving. Obviously European leaders have to pretend to take the orange man seriously, but the reaction in the media was bordering on hysterical.

0xcb0

The United States are not longer an allie nor a friend to to EU. Under Trump, they have turned into a Terror regiem, ignoring international law, human rights. They have to be international isolated together with Israel. They are the enemy of a free and civilized world!

ZeroGravitas

The billionaire oligarch who put that (stupid) idea in Trump's head is still out there. His son-in-law will probably be the next head of the Federal Reserve. If the oligarchs don't feel any pushback they'll continue to wreck the US and Europe.