- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.
This prompted me to look at Greenland’s demographics and…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_case
I’ve said this before, but this site helps me learn about a new horror committed by Europeans at least weekly.
Idk if this is widespread knowledge in Europe, and particularly Denmark, but I’m amazed I had never heard of this. Almost as bad as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Death to America, Death to Colonialism, Death to Crakkkers
Sweden, Norway, and Finland did something similar with their own Sami populations, but yes it is more common knowledge in europe, that greenland isnt “like iceland”.
For fucks sake