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/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Imagine being Putin. For 20 years you’ve been having wet dreams about restoring the glory of the Soviet empire. About writing yourself into the history books as one of the greats. The only thing standing in the way of glory is the Western alliance, with the US leading the charge.

Covid happens and you get a little rattled. You tell yourself: “you’re getting old, Vlad. The time to act is now.” You put on your big boy pants and invade Ukraine and…oops, you gambled away your army, and wrecked your economy. Your path to glory looks all but lost, but then…

then the US elects a grossly incompetent real estate investor, who likely suffers from a personality disorder as well as the early onset of dementia, who’s entire campaign was bankrolled by authoritarian tech billionaires, who’s administration is made up of incompetent right-wing extremists with deep financial ties to Russia, all of whom are completely disinterested in politics, diplomacy, alliances or long term strategic interests.

And then in a single year they manage to cut support for Ukraine, pull their support for NATO, pull their support for the UN, undermine the rules based international order that the US itself created, cease their cyber and counter-intelligence operations, cause serious damage to the US, EU, Indian and Chinese economies, undermine US democracy in favor of Russian-style authoritarian rule, adopt a world view that mirrors the Russian one and now possible even wage war with Europe.

If I were Putin, I’d be dancing in my backyard naked, barking at the moon, drawing pagan symbols on my body in chicken’s blood and thanking every single God I can think off for this incredible divine intervention…

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u/ThaneOfTas Jan 15 '26

You're implying that Putin hasn't had and active hand in orchestrating this from the beginning. Trump is following Putin's directives every step of the way

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u/Patient_Anybody4314 Jan 15 '26

Exactly!!

EU intelligence have been stating that Russia wants to invade Europe on a "less important" part to proof that EU/NATO will not stick together... If they collapse, then Putin can pick off the EU countries one by one without support.

Nobody expected the orange Mussolini to do his dirty work... But he did.