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Important note that Greenland is not in the EU (although Denmark is), so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern. (I think this would be a
by rwmj 10mo ago
Important note that Greenland is not in the EU (although Denmark is), so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern. (I think this would be a wrong thing to think, but that's how it would be diffused at first.)
- impossiblefork 10mo agoActually, no. There's also NATO, but I guess 42.7 is stronger than article 5.
- hdgvhicv 10mo agoSo when Denmark invokes article 5, nato members like the US will declare war on the US?
- impossiblefork 10mo agoThat sounds very silly. Obviously the US breaking its treaty obligations doesn't mean that everybody else will.
- dataflow 10mo agoArticle 5 does not, contrary to popular belief, require military response. Go read the wording. It basically requires members to do exactly what they would be already required to do: whatever they want.
- pera 10mo agoHere is a link for those like me who have not read Article 5 before, with additional comments: https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/collective-defence-and-article-5 https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/coll...
- embedding-shape 10mo ago> so likely the EU would at first think this is not their concern. No, the EU might not contain the top-of-the-top when it comes to people aware of what's going on, but not even EU is so dimwitted to brush aside an invasion of Greenland as "not our concern". Not to mention that Greenland is an autonomous part of Denmark, and Denmark is very much a part of the EU.
- dataflow 10mo ago> No, the EU might not contain the top-of-the-top when it comes to people aware of what's going on, but not even EU is so dimwitted to brush aside an invasion of Greenland as "not our concern". So far the French president is welcoming what happened in Venezuela. How do you imagine he feels about the implications for Greenland and Europe?
- jemmyw 10mo agoI believe he offered to station French troops in Greenland
- erxam 10mo agoThey're not dimwitted, they're next-level cowards. Big difference. They will gladly take whatever Trump gives to them because they're more afraid about actually standing up for something.