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Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« on: January 12, 2025, 03:17:49 pm »
Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Louise Rasmussen and Stine Jacobsen
January 9, 20254:57 PM ESTUpdated 3 days ago
 
COPENHAGEN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Denmark acknowledged on Thursday it had long neglected the defence of Greenland, a vast and strategically important Arctic island, after President-elect Donald Trump said acquiring the Danish sovereign territory was vital for U.S. security.
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, said this week that U.S. control of Greenland was an "absolute necessity" and did not rule out using military or economic action such as tariffs against Denmark to make it happen.
 
"We have neglected for many years to make the necessary investments in ships and in aircraft that will help monitor our kingdom, and that is what we are now trying to do something about," Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told journalists.

The U.S. embassy in Copenhagen said earlier on Thursday that the United States has no plans to increase its military presence in Greenland.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-it-has-no-plans-increase-military-presence-greenland-2025-01-09/
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2025, 01:39:38 am »
Seems they will make a deal with us before they lose Greenland for nothing
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2025, 12:56:05 pm »
We sailed by Greenland several times.  Not much to see there.  Probably an oil field under all that ice, if so it would be worth having.

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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2025, 02:39:45 pm »
We sailed by Greenland several times.  Not much to see there.  Probably an oil field under all that ice, if so it would be worth having.
Have traveled around the world many times.  The most impressive flight I ever took was one non-stop from London to Los Angeles which went over Greenland during the day, and fortunately had a window seat.

Wow.  It looked like nature at its finest, mountains covered with snow and massive glaciers between them.  No hint that man had ever been there and certainly the only place comparable in sheer unspoiled wintry beauty would be Antarctica.

Would be a tremendous challenge to mine anything in the interior.
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2025, 03:47:18 pm »
I hear Greenland has weapons of mass destruction.  Some eskimo was asking around about 'yellow cake uranium.'  Could a 'regime change', 'liberation', and 'making Greenland safe for democracy' be in our future?
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2025, 09:14:19 am »
I hear Greenland has weapons of mass destruction.  Some eskimo was asking around about 'yellow cake uranium.'  Could a 'regime change', 'liberation', and 'making Greenland safe for democracy' be in our future?
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2025, 09:16:10 am »
Have traveled around the world many times.  The most impressive flight I ever took was one non-stop from London to Los Angeles which went over Greenland during the day, and fortunately had a window seat.

Wow.  It looked like nature at its finest, mountains covered with snow and massive glaciers between them.  No hint that man had ever been there and certainly the only place comparable in sheer unspoiled wintry beauty would be Antarctica.

Would be a tremendous challenge to mine anything in the interior.

That Ice moves. Even keeping a casing string for an oil well together would be difficult, if not impossible. Only a facility that could withstand the pressure of the ice moving around it and not tied to the land below might survive.
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Re: Denmark says it has neglected Greenland defence for years
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2025, 01:46:38 pm »
That Ice moves. Even keeping a casing string for an oil well together would be difficult, if not impossible. Only a facility that could withstand the pressure of the ice moving around it and not tied to the land below might survive.
Don't know if it is possible to construct something like that.  Best one could hope for is to travel with the moving ice, but that brings up an altogether set of problems.
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