cakes wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:17 pm

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.

That always ends well.

I was reading somewhere the response to an invasion of Greenland has the potential to cripple the US for quite some time. We'd lose NATO, but then the EU would shut down all our air bases, call in our debt, seize our corporate headquarters and freeze their bank accounts, and cut the US off from western trade. Considering that mining companies don't think Greenland is worth the expense, because they could go there now and mine it with our agreements with the country, but they can do it cheaper elsewhere, and the fact that we have a military base there already with a military alignment, this is probably the dumbest move any one in history or in the future could make.

But the US is motivated by Trump's ego alone, and he's only governed by his own morality, so we'll probably have WWIII where we end up crumbling from the weight of one man's dementia-addled brain being fed by absolute psychopaths.

cakes wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:17 pm

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.

That always ends well.

I was reading somewhere the response to an invasion of Greenland has the potential to cripple the US for quite some time. We'd lose NATO, but then the EU would shut down all our air bases, call in our debt, seize our corporate headquarters and freeze their bank accounts, and cut the US off from western trade. Considering that mining companies don't think Greenland is worth the expense, because they could go there now and mine it with our agreements with the country, but they can do it cheaper elsewhere, and the fact that we have a military base there already with a military alignment, this is probably the dumbest move any one in history or in the future could make.

But the US is motivated by Trump's ego alone, and he's only governed by his own morality, so we'll probably have WWIII where we end up crumbling from the weight of one man's dementia-addled brain being fed by absolute psychopaths.

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:32 pm

cakes wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:17 pm

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.

That always ends well.

I was reading somewhere the response to an invasion of Greenland has the potential to cripple the US for quite some time. We'd lose NATO, but then the EU would shut down all our air bases, call in our debt, seize our corporate headquarters and freeze their bank accounts, and cut the US off from western trade. Considering that mining companies don't think Greenland is worth the expense, because they could go there now and mine it with our agreements with the country, but they can do it cheaper elsewhere, and the fact that we have a military base there already with a military alignment, this is probably the dumbest move any one in history or in the future could make.

But the US is motivated by Trump's ego alone, and he's only governed by his own morality, so we'll probably have WWIII where we end up crumbling from the weight of one man's dementia-addled brain being fed by absolute psychopaths.

According to this Finnish military expert an US invasion of Greenland would be an absolute disaster.



Even with total dominance air power US ground troops would struggle to compete with Northern European and Canadian troops and logistics working in extreme weather conditions.

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:32 pm According to this Finnish military expert an US invasion of Greenland would be an absolute disaster.



Even with total dominance air power US ground troops would struggle to compete with Northern European and Canadian troops and logistics working in extreme weather conditions.

joe_lmr wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 6:19 pm
But yeah, we're prepared for Arctic warfare about as well as Napoleon was prepared for the Russian front.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:32 am

joe_lmr wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 6:19 pm
But yeah, we're prepared for Arctic warfare about as well as Napoleon was prepared for the Russian front.

As a Canadian living in California, I will say: “And then some”

cakes wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 2:17 pm

Gramsci wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:12 pm There are reports Germany is intending to put boots on the ground in Greenland.

That always ends well.

I was reading somewhere the response to an invasion of Greenland has the potential to cripple the US for quite some time. We'd lose NATO, but then the EU would shut down all our air bases, call in our debt, seize our corporate headquarters and freeze their bank accounts, and cut the US off from western trade. Considering that mining companies don't think Greenland is worth the expense, because they could go there now and mine it with our agreements with the country, but they can do it cheaper elsewhere, and the fact that we have a military base there already with a military alignment, this is probably the dumbest move any one in history or in the future could make.