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		vinni2 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: European military personnel arrive in Greenland as... Except most of that >800k square mile island is empty. They only need to capture the capital.

cosmicgadget 34 days ago | [–]

Why does the capital matter?

ben_w 34 days ago | [–]

"Need" or "want"?

Remember, the US already has treaty rights to build bases: the defence strategy of Greenland before this nonsense was "be a member of NATO, nobody would be dumb enough to attack us because if they did the USA would defend us".

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