France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

  • falseWhite@lemmy.world
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    Okay, so your issue is with the “taken over and equipment confiscated”. I agree that not every base could be taken over and equipment confiscated. I did clarify in another comment that the personnel and troops in those bases would either have to surrender or die. But many bases could be taken over extremely easily. Those that would resist and couldn’t be overcome, would simply be bombed and destroyed.

    explain your understanding of the US response following direct attacks on its military bases.

    The attacks on USA military bases would be the remaining NATO members’ response to the USA attacking one of its allies (Greenland), not the other way around.

    My first comment was a response to someone saying that the USA military based in the EU would march into the capitals and take them over somehow. Which is an absolutely absurd statement (and they have slightly edited that comment since)

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      I agree that it is absurd to think that the US military would ever march into European capitals unless it was at the end of an extremely long engagement similar to what is being done to Ukraine.

      Also, I sincerely hope none of this ever happens (or if it does that the left [economic NOT US political left] is victorious and I can use my fediverse comment history to be welcomed into the the post US post capitalist world)