Big daddy Trump

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Then he should have said so, instead of making that boneheaded, ill-informed claim. It’s also kind of a snark at the 280 000 000 people who live north of the Arctic Circle.

Boru

Wait, where are you getting the 280 million figure? I'm looking and I'm not seeing anything higher than 5 million.

My mistake. I read 4 million and my brain processed it as 4%.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

The Military™ won’t betray the constitution, but they can always find at least some volunteers within it to do so..same as the gp. Take the guys out in Alaska prepping to air bridge Minneapolis. It’s 10% of the unit. They’d have the whole unit ready to rock if they thought they could. You can credibly assume they put out a call and that’s how many broken Joe’s answered.

[Leonardo17]

BrianBoru:
 
- It’s only my way of talking. When I said “there is no sun” I was trying to emphasize the fact that today (for instance) the sun rose at 10:30 am and sunset is at 17:00. Sunrise and sunset hours in the arctic is different than the rest of the world. To us it’s like the sun there is completely broken:
 
https://www.worlddata.info/america/greenland/sunset.php
 
- The second statement is also an exaggeration aiming to emphasize the fact that Greenland is only an island with some 50,000 inhabitants where almost everything is imported in a way that is similar to Island. In Island salaries are high but the price of one cappuccino is between 3,5 and 7 US dollars:
 
https://adventures.is/blog/prices-in-iceland
 
So life in these locations are tough. Personally, I don’t know if I could make it a month in Alaska even if everything was paid for in advance.
 
So I used humor and exaggeration in an aim to illustrate that none of this is worth the undermining of 80 year old alliances or risking an all-out economic war with the EU.
 
So let me repeat: There are times when I really don’t get it (I mean D. Trump and his political agenda)
 
/But I will try to be more specific about my statements from now on

[Thumpalumpacus]

For those worried about Trump's Greenland threats:

NATO defense officials have confirmed that European allies, led by the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, currently carry the primary responsibility for Arctic military operations, as the United States lacks sufficient forces and experience for sustained activity in the High North, according to The Times.

The assessment follows recent allied exercises and internal NATO evaluations showing that Arctic-ready capabilities are concentrated in Europe rather than the United States.

Officials said forces from the UK, Norway, Finland, and Sweden are now the alliance’s most prepared units for operations in extreme cold, ice-covered terrain, while U.S. forces remain limited in both equipment and training for the environment.

https://defence-blog.com/u-s-military-fa...-exercise/

[Deesse23]

"Russian aggression leads to NATO being able to defend itself against US aggression." Worst Hollywood script ever.....until very recently.