top | item 46673129 (no title) Chance-Device | 1 month ago That’s delusional. The EU won’t even deploy economic countermeasures against the US, let alone military resistance. The US could take Greenland by force tomorrow and the EU response would be a poetry recital. discuss order hn newest ben_w|1 month ago > The US could take Greenland by force tomorrow and the EU response would be a poetry recital.If that's the best the EU can manage, the EU ends the same day, and all of the EU knows that. Ergo, they won't let that happen.Likewise, all of NATO except apparently part of the US, knows that the US taking Greenland by force means the end of NATO. Chance-Device|1 month ago I don’t think these things work the way you think they work.Nobody really cares about Greenland.Nobody is willing to allow there to be real consequences, or even real inconveniences, as a result of anything to do with Greenland.The EU is primarily an economic and regulatory structure, not a military alliance.NATO is a paper tiger anyway, people will invent some justifications and keep doing business as usual. load replies (1)
ben_w|1 month ago > The US could take Greenland by force tomorrow and the EU response would be a poetry recital.If that's the best the EU can manage, the EU ends the same day, and all of the EU knows that. Ergo, they won't let that happen.Likewise, all of NATO except apparently part of the US, knows that the US taking Greenland by force means the end of NATO. Chance-Device|1 month ago I don’t think these things work the way you think they work.Nobody really cares about Greenland.Nobody is willing to allow there to be real consequences, or even real inconveniences, as a result of anything to do with Greenland.The EU is primarily an economic and regulatory structure, not a military alliance.NATO is a paper tiger anyway, people will invent some justifications and keep doing business as usual. load replies (1)
Chance-Device|1 month ago I don’t think these things work the way you think they work.Nobody really cares about Greenland.Nobody is willing to allow there to be real consequences, or even real inconveniences, as a result of anything to do with Greenland.The EU is primarily an economic and regulatory structure, not a military alliance.NATO is a paper tiger anyway, people will invent some justifications and keep doing business as usual. load replies (1)
ben_w|1 month ago
If that's the best the EU can manage, the EU ends the same day, and all of the EU knows that. Ergo, they won't let that happen.
Likewise, all of NATO except apparently part of the US, knows that the US taking Greenland by force means the end of NATO.
Chance-Device|1 month ago
Nobody really cares about Greenland.
Nobody is willing to allow there to be real consequences, or even real inconveniences, as a result of anything to do with Greenland.
The EU is primarily an economic and regulatory structure, not a military alliance.
NATO is a paper tiger anyway, people will invent some justifications and keep doing business as usual.