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.”
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.