Well, global warming might push the gulf stream down south to like Spain and make it even colder up here, and hence the ice thicker. That could be Danish planning, but it sounds more like Norwegian planning.
billions of dollars of handouts we’ve been giving them for decades
Yep, which underlines why this works, it has congressional approval. The entire point (and a requirement for) those funds is to spend them in the US defense sector.
If you are from Denmark, I hope you are proud of your leader. I almost am for you! To me, Denmark is showing more leadership and courage then just about all the rest of the planet right now. 👍🏼🫡
Looking through Danish new sites (Dr.dk, Information, Politiken), there is not a single headline about this. I’m curious as to why, and what the angle will be, whenever we get any domestic news on it.
In principle, I think this is a good thing, and something we should have done a long time ago. However, our current PM (Mette Frederiksen) has a history of promising the moon and then never actually getting around to delivering on it, so I’m kind of half-way expecting this to mean “we’ll establish a comittee that’ll start an investigation into what we can send and when we can send it” and then it’ll take them a year or more to figure out the logistics of it, at which point it might be too late.
I should be excited about this, but I am so jaded by our politicans complete lack of interest in anything else than playing the game and staying in power that I struggle to be.
I think it's a very laudable act (if action follows words).
I think in terms of the rest of Europe, and especially NATO countries in Europe, we should certainly be providing everything we can while still being careful to provide enough means for our own defence. This is especially true with the threat (however realistic) of another Trump presidency, which could leave us on our own in this regard.
Provided we have our own Europe-wide defence covered though, yes we should be giving all the aid we can to Ukraine.
Yes. Honestly… The plan is to oblige to the NATO 2% requirement, which means that we will need to invest in war production instead of just clinging to old stocks. So even as bad as it is to increase a budget for something that we don’t need, it’s still better for Denmark to restart the production and give away the old stock. Denmark has reopened an old ammunition factory (which had been an eyesore for 50 years) and also collaborating with Germany on the bigger calibers.
Basically, Denmark is investing domestically, in EU and in Ukraine, and it’s all according to agreement with NATO. (Regardless of Trump’s stupid speech the other day, this needs to be done.)
It’s like donating old bread before it goes bad. Let’s hope the Ukrainians can find a Russian head to use it at, because we don’t need it now, but we’re obliged to keep production up.
Yup. Fire it off and hope it hits someone in the head. The closer to Vladimir Putin, the better. I feel sorry for the Russia cannon fooder, but we didn’t ask them to go there, and well, weapons are built to kill, so that’s what they’re gonna do.
We already gave Ukraine our bran spanking new artillery a year ago, we had just received, that was supposed to replace the old ones.
So we are not just donating old stuff.
Let’s go Denmark, hopefully you can convince more of Europe that freedom, democracy, and the right to self determination are worth fighting and making sacrifices for
There are some nations in europe that attempt self-determination, without any recognition. For example catalonia had close to 50% support, but europe looked the other way; even after trying to organize a referendum on their own, being repressed with excessive violence and ending up with political prisoners, europe looked the other way.
Nothing, and that's fine. I don't know if it's because of fanaticism with the topic or what, but it seems strange to me that people get upset about this.
But to try to clarify it better, the other user says that self-determination is one of the values of europe (to fight for), hence my comment.
I have him blocked so I can’t see his comments, but I suspected who you were talking about after reading your first paragraph. Yeah, he started making really cringe nonsense critical responses to other comments I made and a bunch of older posts no one ever voted on mysteriously were voted down, though that could be an odd coincidence. What’s he up to now?
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