You literally can't make this stuff up.
Yep!
From Reuters:
The German Armed Forces were deploying a reconnaissance team of 13, first to Copenhagen, before heading on to Greenland with Danish personnel. Late on Wednesday, a Danish Air Force plane landed at Nuuk airport and personnel in military fatigues disembarked.
Sweden was sending three officers, and Norway two. Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, France's ambassador to the Poles, said France was sending about 15 mountain specialists.
One British officer was joining the reconnaissance group. The Netherlands said it would send one officer from its navy.
That one poor British chap when three U.S. carrier groups, five B-2 bombers, and a swarm of Blackhawks appear like locusts on the horizon:
One must wonder if the rapid response was due to President Trump's recent "report" on Greenland's "defenses." 👇
The move follows a recent meeting at the White House with Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers. Trump remains adamant that Russia and China will swoop in to control new shipping lanes and mining opportunities in the Arctic if the U.S. does not step into a more direct role.
The military deployment to Greenland sends two messages, said Professor Marc Jacobsen, of the Royal Danish Defence College.
‘... One is to deter, is to show that 'if you decide to do something militarily, we're ready to defend Greenland'," he told Reuters. "And the other purpose is to say: 'Well, we take your critique seriously, we increase our presence, take care of our sovereignty, and improve surveillance over Greenland".'
Considering that the U.S. already has 200 soldiers stationed on the island, Europe isn't adding much to those two dogsleds Trump talked about.
We'll see whose saber-rattling wins!
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