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A massive increase in defense spending is set to hit Greenland in a move that would allow the Artic territory to fortify its military’s strength.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241225164949/https://www.rawstory.com/greenland-2670671719/

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fgreenland-2670671719%2F

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

Greenland was getting this anyway. Clickbait headline tying it to Trump.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 12 hours ago

He’s already doing what putin wants, driving the US and NATO countries apart

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

After Trump's comment, if I was the Greenland PM, I would order Pituffik Space Base closed immediately. It's not safe to keep US military personnel on Greenland soil anymore.

[–] azdalen@beehaw.org 2 points 3 hours ago

actually, this makes agent orange's comments about Greenland make more sense now. Where is one of the US' closest early warning systems to Russia? PSB. How do you increase the liklihood that that station gets shut down or at least make it harder to re-supply/support? Get the operating nation and hosting nation to sever ties...

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

That was my first thought. But that is just what putin wants, and probably why he told the useful idiot to say this.