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The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.

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[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

That was how I had understood the situation till just moments ago.

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Knowing two facts about Greenland I am probbaly in like the 80th percentile of Americans. So you might actually be right

[-] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

TBF, Greenland was not in any way a relevant matter to the average American until like a week ago.

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

much like Ukraine prior to 2022

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