Some others who will join didn't go up front either.

It's not a popularity contest and looks are pretty much irrelevant to things that actually matter.

Perhaps there was already enough people for the actual prepwork without overloading the place just to virtue signal an appearance of cohesion.

Yep, and it is premature to draw conclusions of "shameful decisions" having been made wrt. not sending Finnish troops to the actual exercise (tripwire, whatever you want to call it).

We'll see later if Finland is there or not when Op. Arctic Endurance starts. More nations are supposedly joining it.

Does everyone realize that the troops going to Greenland now are only doing prep work for the upcoming exercise which will involve much more troops?

People seem to think Sweden contributed with 2 persons to fight in snow against USA, Germany with 13, and so on 😂

"Swedish officers are arriving in Greenland as part of a multinational allied group to help prepare upcoming phases of Denmark’s Operation Arctic Endurance exercise, following a request from Copenhagen."

And? Trump is not getting Greenland, even if he grabs it by the glacier.

It's just not happening.

People who think that such US see US take world is actually going to work in reality have been drinking plastic softeners off their Camelbaks for far too long.

Putting it at zero.

Well, I don't consider such a thing as non-zero risk, not anymore.

Especially if the goal is something bigger (like Greenland), anything seems fair game to blackmail people and nations with.

And yapping at Trump certainly won't help reduce such a risk, even if it is small, or not.

I am not terribly convinced.

He already signed an EO to stop defence companies from doing stock buybacks and paying dividends.

If I were "money" I would be upset at my puppet doing so.

Didn't see him getting much hell at all for that, at least in public.

It is however in the national interest to get e.g. the F35 order fully delivered in time.

Even if it means becoming less assertive towards an increasingly autocrat ruler who has little domestic resistance to his whims, even from the people who claim to oppose him.

Yes, history matters.

The statement by Landry ignores all of it.

As expected.

Also, USA did not go there to "help Greenland". That has never been, and is not now either, their goal.

The Sirius Patrol is "two dog sled teams" just like Navy Seals are "bodybuilders who like swimming" and Rangers are "hippies who like hiking".

"self-denial" = denial of course.

I hate my fat fingers and autocorrupt.

It's nevertheless an idea worth exploring.

Dumb stuff like attempts to annex the territory of your allies must come at a cost which communicates even through the thickest and dumbest layer of Yes-men, grandiose illusions of exceptionality and ideological self-denial that it is a massively bad idea.

Günther Fehlingerillä oli äskettäin oikeansuuntaisia vaikkakin melko kulmikkaita ajatuksia Grönlanti-pöhinään liittyen.

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