Greenland? Buy it from Denmark

[August1991]

On 1/25/2025 at 9:32 AM, Aristides said:

Danish official at Davos has message for Trump

 

 

The population of Greenland is about 60,000 people.

Very few of these people speak Danish, or have any allegiance to Denmark.

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So, when push comes to shove, is it Lego or Igloo?

[Venandi]

Denmark has just announced a 2 billion dollar increase in North Atlantic spending on surveillance and sovereignty measures including: 3 arctic patrol vessels, 2 additional long range UAV/UAS and increased satellite capacity. 

Prior to this announcement Denmark's contribution to NATO was 1.6% of GDP so who knows, maybe this was part of the broader plan all along.

In a remarkably short period of time, Denmark's contributions and capabilities are going in the right direction and Canada is paying more attention to the border. I get that people don't like the methodology here and I certainly don't know if all of this qualifies as part of some brilliant plan, but one things for sure... begging, cajoling, asking and even dancing naked on the roof for decades hasn't been nearly as effective as a couple of weeks of Trump.

I still fear is that he doesn't have the discipline to be moderate, incremental and not over extend things like tariffs though.... at some point you have to take yes for an answer and consider it a win. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never a good idea IMO.    

 

Edited January 29, 2025 by Venandi

[Venandi]

Here's the view from those liberal hyenas at CBC.... so it must be true , right? This is all connected and it's not off topic at all, so put the keyboard down Herb.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6625088

Amid all of the Doggie-Boy and Roboduh insults being hurled from low hanging branches like so much monkey sh^% is a few dirt basic questions in need of consideration.

I'd like to hear the progressive plan for how we're going to recruit and train the 16,400 people the military is short in a timely fashion without a killer pause in operational tempo. I'm beginning to think that even if we were hit the 2% spending target tomorrow, the personnel deficiencies would make it difficult to spend the extra money.

I'd also like to know where the crews to fly those UAVs Canada is getting will come from. You can probably expect needing a minimum of 5 crews per vehicle and we are already desperately short of trained aircrew as it is. I'd could ask about the manning for those 16 P8's too... but I won't bother. 

IMO, many of the commentators here have refused to consider basic issues right in front of their faces.... what happened to the massive droves of purple haired Wiccans we were told were waiting with baited breath for more equitable recruitment standards?

The only accomplishments I see is an outflow of experience in the form of attrition and an absence of input from traditional recruiting sources. And lost in this is the huge effect that serving members and retired veterans have on recruiting numbers... somewhere around 65-70% of recruits have relatives, or close family friends who are either serving or retired. And like me, it seems most of them are suggesting alternate career streams now and it sure as hell isn't a function of global warming.     

 

 

 

 

Edited January 29, 2025 by Venandi

[impartialobserver]

i know its unrealistic but how about we let them be independent. Second, we let them reap the rewards of their resources. I know.. unrealistic.