- cross-posted to:
- geopolitics@lemmygrad.ml
- worldnews
- cross-posted to:
- geopolitics@lemmygrad.ml
- worldnews
The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.
TBF, Greenland was not in any way a relevant matter to the average American until like a week ago.
much like Ukraine prior to 2022
the Ukraine*
yes plenty of that too