No. of Recommendations: 2
National Security Priority: Hannity has consistently echoed Trumps claim that only the United States has the power and resources to properly secure Greenland from Russian and Chinese encroachment.
For the halibut, I looked up the number of active duty military for each NATO member.
United States: 1,300,000
Türkiye: 481,000
Poland: 216,000
France: 205,000
Germany: 186,000
Italy: 171,00
United Kingdom: 138,000
Spain: 117,000
Greece: 111,000
Canada: 77,000
Romania: 67,000
Netherlands: 42,000
Finland: 31,000
Czech Republic: 30,000
Portugal: 28,000
Of that 1.3M USians, only about 100,000 are based in Europe. The bulk of the other members, except Canada, have the bulk of their forces in Europe. So, the US is providing a minor part of the defense of Europe, in spite of Trump's whining to the contrary. Wouldn't it be reasonable for the US and Canada to take on defending Greenland, while the European NATO powers provide the bulk of the forces defensing Europe, as they do now? Adding up the European based powers only, I get 1.8M military, larger than the entire US force, in all the world.
A former PM of Denmark was on Amanpour a couple nights ago. She noted that the US used to have 10,000 military in Greenland. The US decided to draw that down to the roughly 200 stationed there now.
But the God King Trump loves to whine about what a victim the US is.
Steve
