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Is Greenland in danger of being overrun by Russia and China? (thetimes.com)
8 points by lysace 6 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments




An interesting part of the article:

Most telling is that the US has little in the way of suitable military resources or experience for the Arctic. It is, for once, European Nato allies, especially the Scandinavians and Britain, who have Arctic-ready forces.

One military source noted that in last year’s Joint Viking exercise in northern Norway, American troops struggled.

Exercise commanders had to ask Finnish reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a military source said.


In my fairly limited experience of Finns, they do seem to have a higher proportion of hard bastards ...

If I understand correctly, this was reservists (presumably with mostly civilian jobs) from the Finnish Jaeger Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger_Brigade) against active military personnel from the US Marine 'II Marine Expeditionary Force' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/II_Marine_Expeditionary_Force) and the US Army's 41st Field Artillery Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Field_Artillery_Brigade_(...).

Sweden, Norway and Denmark (all Nato members) have similar forces specialized in arctic combat.

Source: https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/828b8e66-625d-4d2a-9276-... (via Google Translate).


there is nothing in Greenland worth "overrunning", not to mention that there are vast untapped resources all across the northern reaches of our planet, siberia, mongolia, manitoba, ontario, quebec,nunivut, etc. greenland is another distraction till the mid epstien files elections and hey!, it's cold out there, dont get shot in the face.


Betteridges law - probably not.



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