By god those men are huge. Or Greenland is just that small and I got Mercatored?
Greenland is about the size of 10 people.
This is FALSE! You can fit at least twenty people laying head to toe around its border.
Source: Map of Greenland and plastic army men
You got Mercatored. The German soldiers are somewhat on the large side, but the Finnish soldiers are in fact very tiny.
Hyper local mercatoring. Diabolical.
God damned German übermensch
finnish dwarfs
They actually sent an extra dutch guy. And they went home again. It was just a recon thing
13 Germans: “Okay, whatever.”
2 Finns: “Turn this aircraft carrier around, we’re going home.”
Part of the reason is those are just the 2 finns they can see
2 finns, a singular pair of skis and a rock is probably enough tbh
In William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, only two people achieve some form of immortality. An Alabama redneck with a genetic mutation that made him capable of surviving several cyber tech induced brain deaths that was murdered by a sentient AI and transcoded to digital form against his will, and a perfectly normal Finn who did that to himself voluntarily.
Considering practically everything else Gibson wrote is coming true, I am driven to agree with you.
Note that these soldiers are drawn to scale; each one is roughly the size of Massachusetts.
The German ones have returned home, though; as can be seen, one accidentally deployed into the Labrador Sea and got wet feet. Fearing a potential cold, we brought the whole squad home and are currently administering 200,000 metric tons of chicken soup.
To be fair, the one Brit is actually a GP’s receptionist. Nobody’s getting past them.
You have to update the map, the Germans already returned home again.
Ever heard of “recon missions”?
And they were 15 if you include the pilots.
Pilots? News said they returned using a standard civilian flight connection.
Civilian flights also use pilots I think
But not Bundeswehr pilots…
There were a few french too
Oh no They might plant their flag on Greenland 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️
France: most successful military of all time, makes one colossal fuck up.
Everyone: cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Vive la France!
Napoleon had a successful army but I mean after that?
You can make your own opinion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France
Short story: this joke is dumb and offensive.
Yeah… Post 19th century is just a string of defeats and atrocities.
As far as I can remember the only ones who want to plant a flag there are the faschist US Americans. Don’t get them confused, honey.
You American? Sounds like you’ll find out what the red part of the French flag means soon, motherfucker.
I thought it was the royalty surrenders and then die. Blue > white > red?
Look up what red in flags means beyond specificity.
Strawberries
Shit, it’s piracy isn’t it? No quarter
Hollywood education ladies and gentlemen.
Problem is, nobody can see their flag from all the fooken snow
They surrendered on Sunday.
is “a few” 2?
Sounds about right
No that’s “a couple”
Aren’t they advance parties/recce for a bigger force?
We are talking about tripwire forces, so they are basically there so that the invaders have to shoot at Brits, French, Finns, ect. instead off just Greenlanders and Danes.
Their mission is a political one, symbolizing the European support and if war comes to die on camera.Advance parties makes it sound like they are doing some reconnaissance, mapping enemy positions and fortifications.
They are planning for military exercises. Probably just checking where the toilets are are and how many barrels of sauerkraut can they fit in the pantry.
Yeah. The two Norwegians are Lt.Col
Enough for the 150 Americans which are currently there.
“Soldlers”
The EU must be delusional if they think this would scare the US off. They can’t keep thinking they can just get by like in their coalition days when America did all the heavy lifting if they sent some token force. This time Americans are the enemy and they do not fuck around when they want to seize territory.
Initially deployed were a small number of troops, about thirty personnel.[10][11][12] However, the initial military planners, reconnaissance teams, were not intended to deter US action by themselves alone. They were to coordinate the arrival of larger land, sea, and air forces publicly pledged by France, and/or other European states: “As well as providing a show of political support, the European troops were said to be on a short scoping mission, according to one country involved. The aim was to establish what a more sustained ground deployment in Greenland could look like, partly to reassure the US that European NATO members were serious about Arctic security”.[13] The troops also act as a tripwire force, such that an attack against them would be considered an act of aggression against the European partners and reacted to accordingly.[14]
This isn’t a potential war against some unheard of country on the other side of the world with a communist regime. This is a potential war against friends over a territory a majority of Americans doesn’t support invading.
It doesn’t matter how much shock and awe the US have when the population will lose their shit and topple the government. I bet the US could occupy Greenland within half a day but a couple of months later the new US administration will beg the EU to tell them exactly how much they need to grovel for this to be forgiven.
Sending EU military to Greenland was not to intimidate US - how could we? It was about delegitimizing Trumps claim that Greenland could be claimed easily by Russia or China.
Yeah, please let me see the US do all the heavy lifting in Greenland…
Without a reasonable amount of troups trained or equipment for artic operations, without ice breaker or ships certified for artic conditions and without the NATO airfields in Canada, Iceland or Norway their airforce would use to operate in that area.
Also: maybe you could start getting your ideas from reality instead of Hollywood bullshit and look up who makes up the majority of NATO personal- and equipment-wise, even when we are not talking about the artic in particular, where the US just plainj sucks.
But they do fuck up a lot.
The US is good at seizing territory but dog shit at holding it. It’ll be a long protracted war that’ll weaken the Western powers which is exactly what Russia and China want. I hope it never comes to war among NATO members but considering how awful and erratic Trump is this might actually happen.
