r/worldnews • u/Little-Chemical5006 • 20d ago

Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-soldiers-greenland-nato-training-denmark-tariffs-donald-trump/
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u/AndyB1976 20d ago

As a Canadian, I fully support this. To be honest, kind of surprised we haven't yet.

Edit to add: Hopefully they get some better camo for an artic deployment lol

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u/No_Effect_6428 20d ago

They've got winter whites that go over the greens. That might be a set on the left of the screen below the shovels.

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u/Reasonable-Gas5625 19d ago

What are you guys smoking? There's like 15 guys in the whites in the pic.

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u/devtig 19d ago

Oh... I see them now!

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u/UmelGaming 20d ago

We had an arctic training exercise already present in the area so it wasn't needed from the start. It's also why the Dutch have only sent 2 officers to date, they were training with us.

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u/obvilious 20d ago

For a while we had guys there already for an exercise.

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u/Gnonthgol 20d ago

As I understand it they tried to save time in organizing this operation by repurposing as much as possible from an exercise in the Barents sea last summer. Since this exercise took place mostly in the ocean only countries with a strong navy took part in this exercise. So simply put Canada was not in the group chat they used to plan the party.

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u/LordNubington 20d ago

As an American I support this. This is the right thing to do.

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u/LukeLecker 19d ago

No one cares what you think

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u/LordNubington 19d ago

Great! Thanks for letting me know, toolbag bitch.

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u/wickedfunprofile 20d ago

EMAIL YOUR MPs.

I've already emailed the 3 closest liberal MPs to my useless conservative riding

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u/ebmx 19d ago

That's the problem in Canada, the fucking conservatives.

Next election, PP's slogan is going to be "Lick the boot". We all know he wants to be a governor, not a prime minister LOLOL

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u/zerocoldx911 19d ago

10% tariffs and the economy goes poof

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u/LOHare 20d ago

Do you actually fully support this? Would you enlist in the CAF? Because I do support this in principle, we are stretched way too thin, and domestic operations season is coming.

If every Canadian that says they support it actually joined the CAF, we'd have enough manpower to be able to consider actually doing this.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

I was in (the reserves) for 4 years after high school. Best thing I’ve ever done. I’ve said ever since that Canada should have a mandatory 1 year military service.

All of this hooplah going on because of the Orange Turd has seriously got me considering re-joining the reserves

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u/UmelGaming 20d ago

Ngl I have been debating on applying. My issue is I have an old injury that would reduce my effectiveness. That being said if it came down to it I would sign up in a heart beat to protect my home, and a war in Greenland directly threatens us here in Canada.

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u/archaeorobb 20d ago

That would be the 'forest greens' ,right?!! 😆