Danish troops told to ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ if US invades Greenland | LBC

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/danish-troops-shoot-first-us-greenland-5HjdQNW_2/

41 Comments

  1. That is just their mandate regardless.

    **The European nation’s rules of engagement requires soldiers to “immediately” counter-attack invading forces without awaiting orders**

    Fucking people and their mountains over a molehill.

  2. WhyAreYallFascists on

    Don’t we have bases there? We did a looooooot of shit up there during the Cold War. 

  3. Ordinary-Figure8004 on

    I never thought I’d see the day where I cheered for any army that goes up against ours, but here I am.

    Give em hell, Denmark. This American is on your side.

  4. reading the article, they havent been told to specifically do this against US forces but rather the article is restating current EU military doctrine, which somewhat ironically is based on US doctrine (to the degree the US has a doctrine).

  5. MathematicianOld3942 on

    Tomorrow Trump will tell us the Danish Troops provoked him and he couldn’t act differently to remain peace.

  6. Think its important to note this law was passed in 1952 after the end of the world war II and after a commision investigated what happen with the break down in communication between Copenhagen and the Danish troops in southern Denmark near the border to Germany.

    This is a standing order to defend the Kingdom if communication breaks down, just as Sweden has a principle saying the nation will never surrender and if people hear this its propaganda.

    Its not related to the Greenland debacle at all. (A lot of people dont read the articles linked here)

  7. bobsaccomanno41 on

    The fact that this whole situation is a legitimate conversation is still completely unbelievable to me. The fact that this is going on, and not one person is talking about doing ANYTHING meaningful to keep our President from potentially ordering an invasion, of not just a country, but an ally.

    We have fallen so far. Just a few years ago, the United States was the leader of the free word. Now, we have threats from NATO directed at US.

    Meanwhile, federal agents are murdering Americans in the streets, we illegally deposed another country’s leader under a blatantly false pretext, all the while people here are struggling to afford groceries and health insurance.

    Stop the insanity. We’re not even at the 1 year mark. I’ve been convincing myself that we’ll make it through this, but the fact that a huge chunk of people still support this, on top of SCOTUS likely letting the GOP grab more and more power in democratically, it just keeps getting bleaker and bleaker.

  8. Elysium_Planitia on

    As an American I completely understand and I wish the Danes luck and victory. But know this: If Trump is stupid enough to attack an ally, then he’s stupid enough to get whats coming to him in the homeland.

  9. Trump is so unbelievably unfit for office that he has brought us to the brink of a civil war and world war at the same time.

  10. 99% of the news on reddit is in the format of these clickbait titles that try to infer something is actively developing. my nerves can’t take it anymore.

  11. Civil war is not something I wish on the american people.

    One thing that i’m curious if it may work is if nobody goes to work for a prolonged period of time until trump gets impeached by his own party.

  12. jimmywhereareya on

    They should refuse flights from America, they should refuse any ships from America that try to dock. If all of Europe did the same, it would at least demonstrate our solidarity

  13. Senior_Pie9077 on

    It won’t be a shooting war. Trumps “little maga men” will create problems.

    He’ll offer a million dollars to every Greennlander to buy an election. He’ll complain that Denmark won’t protect Americans visiting. (Putin’s playbook)

    Time to revoke visas for Americans

  14. JakeMannlington on

    Any troops who go along with this invasion are getting whats coming to them. Stand up to the tyranny, dont follow it!

  15. FreeThinker83 on

    I am absolutely appaled and ashamed as an American. I did not vote for this turd stain and I am irate, pissed off, and furious about this dictator level shit. People wonder why Americans aren’t standing up…it’s because we’re afraid. Afraid because if one of us stands up the FBI, CIA, NSA and god knows who else will clobber us immediately. It’s a scary world out there, but there will come a time!

  16. nugentismycenter on

    Fucking embarrassing as an American. Denmark has always been a good ally. Destroying good relations for no reason is absolutely asinine.

  17. Banned4UsingSlurs3 on

    I support the Danes though I don’t expect to go well at all.

    Europe needs to wake up against the US.

  18. Reasonable approach. We can only hope that Republicans start speaking out but not like Lindsey Graham !

  19. ryhaltswhiskey on

    Putin’s dream of destroying NATO would be fully realized. And Trump would be the useful idiot that pulled it off.

  20. Ear_Enthusiast on

    We’re going to wake up one morning in the next two weeks to news that the US has started the invasion of Greenland.

  21. MasqueOfNight on

    As an American, agreed. We have no business invading another nation, especially an allied one.

    Obviously, I don’t want anyone getting shot and killed, but I won’t support our troops engaging in senseless wars.

  22. Okay, but … there’s already a US base there. If an invasion happens it would go on from there.

    Part of me wonders if expelling them off the base and replacing them with the French or Brits would be a good idea. Then again, it might cause even more insane actions from Trump.