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Britain in talks to deploy troops to Greenland as Trump threatens to seize Arctic island
(www.standard.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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It would be hard for the small country of Denmark to hit the world’s biggest economy in any noticeable way though
Hence the "rest of the NATO" of my comment.
It would be hard to convince, let’s say, Turkey, Poland or Italy that some Danish island in the Atlantic is their problem too
If anything, countries will see possibilities and profit in any conflict
EU treaties mean that an attack on Greenland is an attack on Poland.
Eh, so many things rely on international cooperation to "make sense". If Europe or any member states, for example, stopped recognizing US copyright or anti-circumvention laws, it would be a significant hit to their position of dominance that was built upon decades of allies granting it to them through treaties.