- Denmark is sending all of its artillery to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said.
- Mette Frederiksen made the announcement while speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
- It comes as Ukraine faces severe munitions shortages.
Well, when else would they be used? The other case I see would be Russia winning in Ukraine and blitzing onward, so why not stop them in Ukraine.
Let’s go Denmark, hopefully you can convince more of Europe that freedom, democracy, and the right to self determination are worth fighting and making sacrifices for
Easy there you’re about to be called Hamas
Fellow swedes, this is our chance.
Don’t you dare even look at the Øresund, we still have our sticks.
Just you wait until the ice is thick enough to carry an army! It’s just a tad heavier now than last time but a time will come
Not if we keep global warming going at its current pace!
Is global warming actually a Danish plot for security from Sweden?
Well, global warming might push the gulf stream down south to like Spain and make it even colder up here, and hence the ice thicker. That could be Danish planning, but it sounds more like Norwegian planning.
Holly crap Denmark! 😮
If you are from Denmark, I hope you are proud of your leader. I almost am for you! To me, Denmark is showing more leadership and courage then just about all the rest of the planet right now. 👍🏼🫡
Thank you!!
Eh.
Looking through Danish new sites (Dr.dk, Information, Politiken), there is not a single headline about this. I’m curious as to why, and what the angle will be, whenever we get any domestic news on it.
In principle, I think this is a good thing, and something we should have done a long time ago. However, our current PM (Mette Frederiksen) has a history of promising the moon and then never actually getting around to delivering on it, so I’m kind of half-way expecting this to mean “we’ll establish a comittee that’ll start an investigation into what we can send and when we can send it” and then it’ll take them a year or more to figure out the logistics of it, at which point it might be too late.
I should be excited about this, but I am so jaded by our politicans complete lack of interest in anything else than playing the game and staying in power that I struggle to be.
Next up: Moldova donates it’s entire tank!
Its tank:
You go Denmark!
Is there a reason why Biden can bypass congress to sell arms to Israel but not Ukraine?
edit: thanks for the answers
Sell is the keyword there.
Israel bought weapons.
Ukraine CAN buy weapons
Biden cannot gift weapons without congress approval
Yeah… israel bought weapons with the billions of dollars of handouts we’ve been giving them for decades.
billions of dollars of handouts we’ve been giving them for decades
Yep, which underlines why this works, it has congressional approval. The entire point (and a requirement for) those funds is to spend them in the US defense sector.
I’m not saying it doesn’t work.
I’m highlighting how we’re still giving Israel weapons because they’re buying them with money we gave to Israel.
Perhaps if we gave more aid to Ukraine than we gave to Israel, they would be in a better position to buy weapons.
selling arms versus giving them the arms, for starters.
I’ve been wondering about this as well. My guess is there’s already standing legislation specific to Israel that enumerates such powers.
Are they going to transport the artillery and munitions there by truck or shoot them so the Ukrainians can catch it? /S the title does not explain how :(
