EU military chief says it would make sense to put European troops in Greenland, Welt reports | Reuters

Where generals apparently don't look at defense maps and see the biggest base in Greenland is American anyway... We already have troops there we're just being petulant about who gets the mineral rights.

@sucius1 it's a rather unique moment in history. Never before the Europeans as a whole were at odds with the US and thought that we need to do something to stop the US from acquiring new land from us.

Sure, they fought the Spanish to get states like Texas or California if I recall correctly (or maybe some other states from other colonial powers), but we never as a whole thought about teaming up to detter the US from doing something to us.

One consequence that I see is that if the Western Europeans decide to move on and really do something about Greenland, then they will also engage the Eastern Europeans to join, who are having a hard time with Russia. Might be a tit-for-tat move that everyone might benefit from.

<details class="spoiler"><summary>Reveal/hide</summary>(I don't know if spoilers from Friendica federate over Lemmy) It also means that we should think more seriously about nukes.</details>