I know Greenland’s population is predominantly Inuit but isn’t it a Danish “protectorate” (read Colony) though?
I’m pretty sure an invasion of Greenland would functionally be treated as an invasion of the EU which would put the two essentially into a nuclear war.
Oh I have no doubt that they have neither the inclination nor capability. The question is what does the next day look like? They probably just let Greenland go and claim it’s “on loan” while the locals suffer and part of the EU population copes and seethes and agitates for some sort of EU nationalism and imperial fervor because Europe never learns.
Yeah there’s going to be a lot of cope from EU, and they’ll try to frame it in some way that doesn’t look like the US just annexed territory from them.
No one, not even Denmark, would call it an invasion. And it barely would be. The troops are already there, they just have to walk into the parliament building and say “this is ours now”. Much more akin to a coup than an invasion.
The EU would whine about it endlessly, but they wouldn’t actually do anything.
I know Greenland’s population is predominantly Inuit but isn’t it a Danish “protectorate” (read Colony) though?
I’m pretty sure an invasion of Greenland would functionally be treated as an invasion of the EU which would put the two essentially into a nuclear war.
There’s absolutely zero chance of the EU going to war with the US.
Oh I have no doubt that they have neither the inclination nor capability. The question is what does the next day look like? They probably just let Greenland go and claim it’s “on loan” while the locals suffer and part of the EU population copes and seethes and agitates for some sort of EU nationalism and imperial fervor because Europe never learns.
Yeah there’s going to be a lot of cope from EU, and they’ll try to frame it in some way that doesn’t look like the US just annexed territory from them.
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NATO will side with USA in this case.
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No one, not even Denmark, would call it an invasion. And it barely would be. The troops are already there, they just have to walk into the parliament building and say “this is ours now”. Much more akin to a coup than an invasion.
The EU would whine about it endlessly, but they wouldn’t actually do anything.