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• Idea@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not the first

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …first of the new…

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    • BigLime@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First of the 21st century?

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You are actually correct. Many things are hard to do only because you need to iron out the bugs first. So yes, if your government makes something resembling a concentration camp, you should start worrying, even if it is for 10 000 volunteers for a WWII-themed reality show (dunno who would make such a thing, but a free business idea if anyone wants it). Because once a solution is ready, it can be scaled up very fast.

  Same with many governments in the world considered evil, but incompetent by their populations. They may become competent terrifyingly fast once they direct some resources to that end. There are too many examples around.

  So, about Greenland. Technically Denmark is in EU and EU has a mutual defense clause just like NATO, Denmark is also in NATO. So in theory now would be a good time for all EU countries to reintroduce conscript service and start preparing for rapidly scaling their militaries up. By “rapidly” I mean “general mobilization”. All that talk about “small efficient modern professional armies” negating the need for reserve and mobilization capacity is not new, it was a popular view even in Frederick the Great’s time, and sometimes it’s correct, and sometimes it’s not. Now it’s not. Ukrainian war shows this.

  I’m not talking about them resisting USA demanding from them something, they can’t resist USA, but I think most of what Trump says is bullshit. I’m talking about them eventually needing that capacity with the general tendency of everything becoming year 1600 again.

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