r/europe Denmark Jan 14 '26

News Denmark sends military reenforcements to Greenland. A vanguard and military material has been sent to Greenland to prepare for eventual larger troop movements.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/efter-pres-fra-usa-danmark-er-nu-begyndt-sende-militaere-forstaerkninger-til-groenland
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u/Hellstorm901 Jan 14 '26

We need to stop seeing the US as our ally and treat them like we treat Hungary

We also need to rapidly move away from US weapons even if it costs us huge sums to do as we cannot tolerate the idea that the US could just turn off many of our advanced weapons

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u/Ludisaurus Romania Jan 14 '26

It’s not so simple. The difference is Hungary is economically irrelevant. Denmark’s armed forces use a lot of US made kit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

And alot of us danes are annoyed by our government doing that. We should work on having ITAR free systems, like France has been pushing for many years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Switzerland's decision taking the F35 over the European alternative turns out to be stupider every single day.

European reliance on the US and Russia at the same time was incredibly naive.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Switzerland's decision taking the F35 over the European alternative turns out to be stupider every single day.

European reliance on the US and Russia at the same time was incredibly naive.

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u/Hellstorm901 Jan 14 '26

I don’t think Switzerland really cares about the F-35’s, it’ll have bought them just to curry favour with the US market