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The U.S. is eyeing Greenland while Russia continues to carve up Ukraine. I believe the US will place soldiers on Greenland in an attempt to annex it. I think it will likely happen before Trump's term ends.

If (hopefully not when) the U.S. pressures Ukraine into accepting a bad deal with both Washington and Moscow for "peace", will they leverage that outcome—along with the Greenland situation—to further erode European sovereignty?

Europe cannot realistically fend off the US on Greenland? And certainly not while being pressured by both Russia and the US on different fronts? I am so fucking glad Europe got nukes.

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[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US side? Maybe? The Russian side, good fucking luck. They still haven't taken Ukraine. They would be smashed by any EU army.

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If the EU can actually rally together and form a European army...

^edit: spelling^

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

Poland alone seems perfectly willing to invade Russia given an iota of provocation.

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

They can, but there is a lot of hesitation, and the process is slow.

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not what I said, ANY EU country's army will most likely stump the Russians based on their performance in Ukraine, one of the poorest countries in Europe whom at the time in 2014, and then again in 2022 we're relatively unprepared for defending against an invasion.

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 0 points 3 days ago

Ukraine got a lot of support from the US and Europe. And without the US this would not have been so easy.