JD Vance on Thursday accused Denmark — a fellow NATO member — and the rest of Europe of failing to protect Greenland from the intentions of Russia and China.
“I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously,” Vance told journalists at the White House when asked about Greenland.
After the US military successfully captured Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro last weekend, Donald Trump renewed his push to acquire Greenland, with the use of military force not out of the question.
Vance especially urged Europe to respond to Trump’s insistence that the United States needs the island for “missile defense.”
We are taking him seriously, that’s why we’re improving our defences and strengthening our resolve to defend ourselves from military aggression.
Would Europe and her allies “win” a war with the USA? Difficult to say, depends what the win conditions are. Maybe not.
But she’s got enough strength to make it a many years long affair, ending in nukes if up against the wall. Europe may not win, but it’ll be a pyrrhic victory for the invaders.
Hopefully that knowledge will persuade the USA not to wage war against us. The best outcome is peace and international cooperation through mutual trust and a strong moral center.
We can only hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
It will be Russia invading Europe and China with Taiwan while the usa takes the western continent.
That’s their plan.
You’ll be busy with Russia when it happens.
Personally, I think it would be a contest of raw strength vs endurance. I think that the EU has healthier trade and diplomacy than the USA, while the US starts out with lots of hardware and troops - but the logistics chain would start snapping within a year or two. Militaries are not just the possession of assets, but the regeneration and growth of them.
Kinda like how Ukraine with economic support has been able to confront Russia.