Simon Galle
@simongalle.bsky.social
🇧🇪 Economist interested in trade & development, technology, and labor market inequality.
PhD UC Berkeley. Associate Prof at BI, Oslo.
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sgalle/
PhD UC Berkeley. Associate Prof at BI, Oslo.
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sgalle/
Reposted by Simon Galle
What is currently happening is an escalation management plan
The goal is to deter the United States from attacking, in the same way that stationing troops in the eastern flank of NATO is aimed at deterring Russia
Europe and Canada forces are not amassing troops to repel an US invasion
The goal is to deter the United States from attacking, in the same way that stationing troops in the eastern flank of NATO is aimed at deterring Russia
Europe and Canada forces are not amassing troops to repel an US invasion
This. Greenland defense is a tripwire—putting various European countries’ personnel in harms way in an attempt to deter attack—not an effort to win a war with the US.
A real Europe-US war would destroy the world. The goal is to not have one. Which was more than accomplished by a robust NATO. Alas.
A real Europe-US war would destroy the world. The goal is to not have one. Which was more than accomplished by a robust NATO. Alas.
Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.
January 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
What is currently happening is an escalation management plan
The goal is to deter the United States from attacking, in the same way that stationing troops in the eastern flank of NATO is aimed at deterring Russia
Europe and Canada forces are not amassing troops to repel an US invasion
The goal is to deter the United States from attacking, in the same way that stationing troops in the eastern flank of NATO is aimed at deterring Russia
Europe and Canada forces are not amassing troops to repel an US invasion