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NATO members are deploying small numbers of troops to Greenland for a joint military exercise, after a tense meeting with the White House about the island’s future.
French President Emmanuel Macron referred to the exercise as “Operation Arctic Endurance.”
Talks between U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic officials were “frank but constructive” but did not resolve the “fundamental disagreement” of Greenland’s future, the Danish foreign minister said.
Not really, no.
While central Europe and the Balkans still clearly have Russia’s hooks in 'em, most of the population is firmly for the EU (i.e. the West). This couldn’t have happened if Russian soft power did not suffer horrendously at the split of the USSR.
I do get that, and I agree. I was making a (poor) joke.