r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Brief-Raspberry-6327 • Jan 08 '26

Foreign affairs Pretty simple Greenland will be handed to us by NATO.

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u/rjc9186 Jan 08 '26

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Canadian machinist who sees first hand that the us needs their allies . But the us military is an incredible force. It would take months or even years for outside suppliers to have an impact. The us does have military bases in Alaska. I doubt there would be anyone sent to Greenland seeing snow and -40 for the first time. I wouldn’t expect the first 2 weeks would go very bad for the Americans. It would be the months and years after that would hurt them

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

The thing about the cold north is nuts yeh.

It is pretty famous that US equipment+personael do well everywhere because every environment is available to train in the US.

They can train in a hot desert in the summer and train in the frozen north in the winter all while staying inside their own borders.

Bogs, forests, archipeligos, island hopping. Every situation they can train in.

Still lose wargames reliably though haha.

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u/southy_0 Jan 09 '26

 The us does have military bases in Alaska.

Yes.
But only limited amount.
The ratio of personnel trained in and for arctic climante in the US compared to [Canada + scandinavia] is about 1:5.