Really depends on the tanks and drones in question, the soldiers involved, the commanders running the operation, the actual objectives of the mission, yada yada.

Just straight off the bat, drones aren’t great at securing supply lines or moving large volumes of cargo long distances.

you learn a lot from losing.

What do you really think the Hegseth military is going to learn from this?

It should be noted that the U.S. military loses effectively on purpose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Weird to give all this up now

Taking a lighter sentence or gambling on the death penalty? I wouldn’t call that weird at all.

The point is that Greenland isn’t safe because the US has run out of interceptor missiles to deflect Iranian SCUDs.

Most militaries don’t have a very specific kind of anti-ballistic missile defense system that uses $15M/pop interceptors that need to be fired in clusters of 3-5 to be effective per incoming target.

The Americans aren’t running out of bullets or tanks or fighter-bombers. They’re running out of these specific suites of precision anti-air defense tools. And they’re running out because they’ve spread their arsenal across four continents, in an attempt to beat Russia and Iran in an active conflict, while still holding a gun on China and Pakistan.

These weapons shortages aren’t slowing down the Rubio/Hegseth campaign to blow up fishing boats in the Carribean and close off international waters around Cuba. It doesn’t stop them from arming militias in the Philippines and Indonesia, in their crusade to enslave the native peoples of the Pacific Rim. It won’t stop them from sending more special forces in to kidnap a president from Venezuela.

This is the difference between fighting a modern war with a rival industrial power and shoving an underdeveloped, largely rural country into the metaphorical locker.

Europe doing jack all is a whole different fucking problem

It’s very hard to get someone to stick their neck out if they know it’ll get chopped off.

Europe kowtowing to American Imperialism is the root of the problem.

Historically, it has worked more often than it hasn’t. The Big Lie of Vietnam is that it was The Rule rather than a glaring exception.

Most countries don’t mount a successful domestic defense. Most opposition groups don’t have a rival Superpower at their backs. Most insurgency and paramilitary efforts fail.

Meanwhile, the folks doing the imperialist terror campaign to seize control only ever profit, personally, from these military operations. And the public only ever gets fed some bullshit about how Americans are being greeted as liberators.

If US business interests come under attack, the US military has a cause to intervene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada

Would go about as well

Like Europe called a foul in Gaza?

Say that the moment any US drill cuts Greenlandic soil, the shooting will start.

That ends with a whole lot of dead Greenlanders, while the rest of the EU stands back and does nothing.

There’s a name for a police for that’s successfully deterred Western advances into their territory.

The IRGC.

Are you with the US?

Or are you with the Terrorists?

If the yanks are doing illegal stuff, just arrest them

With what army?

You can’t prevent Americans from showing up in your backyard and stealing your natural resources without being accused of Islamic Extremism, Marxist Tankie-ism, or Chinese Capitalism.

Greenland will greet Americans as Liberators, I tell you.

Can’t believe a career Goldman Sachs bankster would do this.

Beginning to suspect the Labour Party is something of a misnomer.

Marriage, as a romantic notion, is about demonstrating a lifelong commitment to another person.

Marriage, as a legal institution, is about creating an economic incentive for intergenerational land ownership among the government-favored ethnic group.

I might suggest that you, at a bare minimum, like the other person even if you’re not romantically fixated on them. The marriage process comingles assets and incomes in a way that’s very difficult to unwind over time. Idk if I’d consider you “broken” for thinking about it. But you might want to reconsider what you’re getting into, especially if there’s someone other than your prospective partner who does have a romantic interest on one (or, fuck it, both) of you.

For folks who are married, the joke has been made a thousand times “We should have done this when we were poorer”. And I even have a friend who did a court-house wedding, months in advance of the family celebration, just to get the tax rebate sooner.

But, it’s a big decision. You’re sharing credit as a single household. Depending on the state, your partner can have all sorts of medical and legal authority that constrains you. And if you don’t even live with the person you’re married to? The economic benefits slide off quite a bit.

They haven’t. Coal consumption has seen a marginal increase. But ask the Australians about the coal market right now. Chinese coal consumption fell far short of Australian coal mining expectations. That country is spiraling into recession as a result.

The bulk of new energy investment in China has been in solar. And they’ve been building out a grid to match

War itself has a huge (environmental) cost, the DoD/W is one of the largest polluters on the planet and receives record funding.

That’s true under every president.

But under Trump, we’ve got fewer boats in the water and fewer bases on the ground than ever before

Fossil fuel consumption hasn’t actually gone down.

Hasn’t it? We’ve cut shipped supplies by around 20% and prices have jumped into the $100/bbl range.