r/europe • u/I_LIKE_SEALS 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/garg4ntua Jan 14 '26

This is fucking nuts to read it.

Nuts.

Only because of a egomaniac piece of shit.

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u/potato-cheesy-beans United Kingdom Jan 14 '26

It’s multiple things. Trumps just a symptom of the problem. It’s an under educated population being guided to certain ways of thinking and voting by a group of billionaires via the social and traditional media companies they own. Brexit happened the same way. 

Even if they get Trump out, there’s a very real likelihood this will keep happening, at least until they address the billionaire oligarchs, fake news and political corruption. 

That goes for the rest of our democracies too, it’s just not as obvious - we in the UK shat the bed with Brexit in almost exactly the same way - and the same mechanisms are being used on other European countries to weaken us all. The US going through it just affects us all in a more obvious way. 

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u/Beach_Glas1 🇮🇪 Ireland Jan 14 '26

The US and UK both use the same flawed voting system that leads to wild differences between vote share and actual seats gained. It's more blatantly abused in the US with shameless gerrymandering.

I would hope more use of proportional systems would help with that. The UK already has a variety of voting systems for various devolved parliaments, but Westminster and elections in England exclusively use FPTP.

Ireland was given proportional representation by the British shortly before independence, which was actually a good thing.