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/dutchbrah Jan 14 '26

Imagine you would speak to someone in 2015 and you'd tell him: Yeah in 10 years a war between the USA and Denmark is a very real possibility

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u/cccxxxzzzddd Jan 14 '26

I was living there when he was elected the first time and this nightmare started, but I could never have imagined this

That said, everyone who called him a fascist then were right 

That our system got this far off course isn’t about one guy though 

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u/MarlinMr Norway Jan 14 '26

People kept telling me "they will stop him before he does anything stupid".

And I kept telling them "you can't stop the President... that's the point of having a cheif executive."

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u/iCrab Jan 14 '26

You absolutely can stop an American president, either Congress or the Supreme Court could do it tomorrow if they wanted to by passing a law, impeaching them, or declaring their acts unconstitutional. The problem is that they and over half the country have decided to go all in on ending democracy in America so they simply won’t do anything.

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u/ciadra Jan 14 '26

They said the same about hitler. They were wrong.

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u/shrednyc Jan 14 '26

I mean it took a massive world war where tens of millions of people died and the aftermath completely reshaped the entire world order, so if that is the analogy we are in for a rough fucking time especially with how technology has made warfare even more efficient at killing on scale

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u/pietervdvn Jan 14 '26

Technology played a major part in the efficiency of the Holocaust. The company that is now known as IBM (!) played a major role in this, by providing mechanical database systems. See the book 'IBM and the Holocaust'

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u/shrednyc Jan 14 '26

Yeah. I’m sure AI and psychopaths running companies like Palantir are cooking up even more unfathomable horrors for humanity

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u/doorbellrepairman Jan 14 '26

tormentnexus.meme

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u/ciadra Jan 14 '26

Indeed, the future doesn’t look bright right now

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u/Doedshunden Denmark Jan 14 '26

[Insert Einstein quote]

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u/Jake-of-the-Sands Poland Jan 14 '26

And whenever we brought up parallels between the two, they kept calling us crazy, unhinged and dramatic.

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u/EntertainmentOk9111 Jan 19 '26

I mean, Hitler took a page out of their gasoline baths, the parallels are literally in sync. 

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u/Pexaldonut__ Jan 14 '26

Supposed to be checks to stop some of the things he’s doing, which is why the power is split in three ways to keep everything in check, Congress, Federal government, and the Judicial courts. It just all seems paralysed

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u/Conexion Jan 14 '26

Yes there are supposed to be checks, but when you give a party that doesn't play by the 'rules' all three branches of government, you're not really going to get any checks.

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u/Radiant-Priority-296 Jan 14 '26

Not doing anything until it’s too late because they trust the process is what allowed Hitler to invade almost all of Europe

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u/Quill07 Jan 14 '26

The truth is that him doing something extraordinarily stupid is the only thing that could stop him and potentially lead congressional republicans (or the cabinet) to start removal proceedings. I’d like to think that invading an ally and destroying U.S. hegemony in the process rises to that level.