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[–] treno_rosso@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not about realistically fighting of the US if they decide to really go for it, but they will have to kill European soldiers if they decide to do so. This would effectively end NATO and the transantlantic partnership.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

NATO isn't a partnership between democratic member states, its a partnership between regional militaries.

The end state of the conflict over Greenland will be - if anything - a series of US-backed coups in European countries that preserve NATO by realigning the civilian leadership with the foreign policy of the US.

We're already seeing this with the AfD in Germany, the Reform UK in England, and National Rally in France. These countries are functionally aligning with Trump as white-nationalist governments working towards the same end goals. And they've all heavily infiltrated their domestic militaries.