The huge package is announced after the president-elect said US ownership of Greenland was a "necessity".

The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a “double digit billion amount” in krone, or at least $1.5bn (£1.2bn). He described the timing of the announcement as an “irony of fate”. On Monday Trump said ownership and control of the huge island was an “absolute necessity” for the US. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is home to a large US space facility and is strategically important for the US, lying on its shortest route to Europe. It has major mineral and oil reserves.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      15·
      13 hours ago

      I really hope that’s what this is, but I’m not sure he’s that smart (or willing to listen to people who are).

  • Lime66@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 hours ago

    Who would NATO article 5 favour in the situation of an invasion of greenland? Would it come to a vote between all members over who to fight? Or would article 5 not be invoked at all?

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      8·
      12 hours ago

      It’s less that and more the rest of article 5 which lets each signatory decide what level of response is appropriate.

      So really, the question you should be asking, is if the US invades, which other signatories would take armed action and declare war against the US, which I suspect is probably not ‘everyone’.

  • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    what i find interesting is that Denmark has been one of the more consistently helpful countries to Ukraine