Germany joins European partners with troop deployment to Greenland

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-send-reconnaissance-troops-greenland-government-says-2026-01-14/

43 Comments

  1. Instead of taking Greenland, can trump attack Iran first, at least it would be the best thing he would’ve done in his presidency

  2. Brief_Afternoon_7160 on

    Well.. who could benefit from destroying NATO? This KGB operation plays out too well.

  3. ChickenMarsala4500 on

    I wish blue states would take a stand against this. If the US attacks a NATO ally i hope that my state would leave the union and stay with NATO.

  4. ComprehensiveWalk353 on

    Although terrifying, I think it’s touching to see EU and NATO stand together against a common enemy

  5. BarracudaTrue8641 on

    I don’t think people should freak out. I think we are just trying to speak Trump language, NATO troops on Greenland should be seen as a ‘NO GO’ now that he is clearly not responding to human language.

  6. Evil_Penguin918 on

    I can’t wait for Trump to proclaim that he single handedly increased NATO’s armed presence on Greenland, deterring Russia & China.

  7. porcupinedeath on

    Worlds gearing up for WW3 and we’re the axis this time. I fucking hate it I hope they [redacted] the Whitehouse

  8. Temporary_Second3290 on

    Now I’m worried about troops being somewhere and something happening where they won’t be. I’m not enjoying 2026.

  9. The_Watcher0_o on

    Germany is sending a reconnaissance team – 13 soldiers.

    reconnaissance – *noun*

    1. military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.

    Hmm, ascertain strategic features. Makes sense before deploying a larger force.

  10. So many of my friends in my country are still like ‘it won’t be war’. I feel insane. Everything and I mean everything is pointing to it now.

  11. As a Canadian I wish our government would deploy troops to support NATO too. Fuck Trump’s fascist government.

  12. Difficult-Bug90 on

    This almost makes me cry. My newly departed danish grandfather had been terrorised by the nazis during WWII. To see how far we have come together in a generation is truly incredible. Sure, the orange hat in America is going backwards, but we are going forwards together. Thank you, Germany 🇩🇪

  13. If European leaders want to be serious about this shit, then Europe needs to do the following:

    Make a very loud public statement that Europe is going start dumping US Treasury Securities. The UK for example holds 3/4 of a trillion dollars in US Treasury Securities. If Europe did this, it would immediately cause the US dollar to collapse and all this Trump Nazi shit would stop immediately. And I mean immediately. The US has the strongest military in the world, but what good is that if you can’t feed and pay your army.

    Yes, there would be some pain in the short term in Europe and in world markets. But in the long term, all this US imperialism bullshit would end. As an American, it pains me to say this but the US cannot lead anymore. The US has thrown away its trust and the world cannot trust the US anymore. The only people that the US can blame is ourselves. Let someone else lead, it’s time.

  14. The U.S. has money to start WW3 but we still can’t afford healthcare, groceries, and education

  15. Now I’m wondering if Greenland is the shiny object to give Xi a window to take Taiwan while eyes and resources are elsewhere.

    God I hate all this.

  16. Europe prepares to defend itself from potential attacks from russia and the USA. A couple of years ago this would be the plot to a silly spy novel. Now it’s real.

  17. Able_Situation9977 on

    If Trumpf keeps moving forward with the Greenland threats, I wonder if Denmark will scrap the latest deal that was signed in October to aquire more F-35 jets.

    Man, Lockheed Martin must hate Trump.

  18. Good guy Germany bad guy USA

    My ww2 veteran grandfather would be perplexed by the timeline we live in. In a way I’m glad he’s not here to see it

  19. A broad European tripwire defence force is wise

    If the US wants to take it, they should have to kill Brits, kill German, kill French, kill troops of every nation. Make the costs so high for them.

  20. Apprehensive_Sea9524 on

    Just remember trump laughing with Sergey Lavrov & Kislyak in the oval office in 2017. It all makes sense in that context.

  21. Trump wants Greenland for his gold-plated toilet missile defense system, but the defense system that inspired it, Israel’s Iron Dome, [only has a 90% success rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome) and only covers an area the size of NJ.

    Call me nuts, but spending hundreds of billions of dollars to have a 1 in 10 chance of missing a nuke strike feels like a poor investment.

  22. I guess Trump got his wish about Europeans taking security against malicious actors more seriously.

  23. This is absolutely the right call. Deploy enough troops that they’ll be wherever Trump’s troops will show up. Give orders to shoot first and ask questions later. Prevents Trump from taking Greenland the way Putin took Crimea. A successful Trump invasion will now require Generals and Admirals to give orders to kill allies and for the troops to follow the orders. Seems unlikely to play out the way the orange clown is imagining.

  24. Dont-Call-Me-Albert on

    I’m so down for Germany to take the mantle of the defenders of freedom. What a redemption arc.

  25. Senior_Torte519 on

    >Trump has repeatedly said in recent weeks that Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark that is strategically located and rich in minerals, is vital to U.S. security, and that the United States must own it to prevent Russia or China from occupying it.

    Arsenal of Democracy Speech, didnt FDR literally say this is exactly what Germany did and said about Belgium?

  26. You know you’re in the twilight zone and something happened because I am rooting for Germany. What a screwed up world we’re in

  27. I’m glad I got to see Europe before Trump starts a *fucking war* with the US’s *closest fucking allies.*

    I can’t believe that sentence isn’t parody.

  28. Subject_Edge3958 on

    I am going to be honest, and maybe I will get downvoted, but personally, I give the fault of this whole thing in a large part to the people living in the US. It is insane to me that our biggest ally is not trying to take European land.

    Like I would really want to know what the people in the 1960s would think of the US supporting Russia to such a degree they are doing and fucking overe there own allies.

    I just don’t get how the people in the US can keep supporting this.

  29. If the USA attacks Greenland it will be on Americans hands to stop ww3 by starting a civil war and remove that clown and their company from where they are.
    The EU really needs this push to stop relying on the US for defense.