• Yeller_king@reddthat.com
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    3 days ago

    Unless countries like the UK and France are willing to deploy their militaries to fight US soldiers in Greenland, it doesn’t matter.

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      Which, indeed, could mean the end of NATO. If it becomes clear that the “alliance” is basically you following the provisions when it serves the US and nobody following them when it doesn’t, what’s the point of all this legalese?

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        Yep I think NATO is effectively dead already. We don’t need to wait for the Greenland annexation for that to be the case.

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      France is in no condition for any war, they could at most crackdown on tiny New Caledonia but have no strenght to do anything to Sahel states. UK military is in complete shambles. So not only they are unwilling to stand to USA but unable to.

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      The UK and France combined would have a problem if there was a single carrier parked in the North Atlantic. They might have a chance if all the US Carriers and subs were 2000 miles away.

      There is nothing anyone except the US can do about a US annexation of Greenland, short of Nuclear weapons.