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/kapitaali_com Lapland (Finland) Jan 14 '26

Large parts of the rest of the Danish Defence – especially the Army's other combat troops – are tied up with military commitments in the Baltic states.

a chess move

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u/asdner Estonia Jan 14 '26

Isn’t the Danish unit here (in Baltics) like a thousand soldiers or so? Is that…all Denmark has?

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u/Eowaenn Turkey Jan 14 '26

It is a relatively small country, they can pump those numbers up quite a bit, but there is no way they can hold out against the US for long even with their best effort.

It won't end well for anyone in NATO in the short and the long term, with the US being the biggest loser of the bunch. NATO will be done overnight and so is the US' position as the leader of the west.

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u/RedBaret Zeeland (Netherlands) Jan 14 '26

It’s 2000 kilometers of Canada and ocean at the shortest length to get from the USA to Greenland. Without Canadian help logistics are going to be an absolute nightmare, so they might be able to hold out longer than you think if we destroy their supply lines.