Denmark is reported to have quietly prepared to blow up its own runways in Greenland – as European allies rushed troops north – amid fears that the United States might attempt to seize the Arctic territory by force in January.

According to reporting by Danish national broadcaster DR, citing multiple senior sources in Copenhagen and across Europe, Danish forces deployed to Greenland in January 2026 carried explosives intended to destroy key airstrips in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq, in order to deny access to any incoming US military aircraft in a worst-case scenario.

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    I look forward to the rest of my life, where I get to witness in real time the longterm consequences of Trump’s second term. It wasn’t the fact that they want to take Greenland and used every mean word in the book to smear my country when we bled the most for them in their pathetic wars in the middle east. It’s how they treated Ukraine and Zelenskyj that sealed it for me. I will never fucking forgive America for Trumps second term.

    Traitor nation. Karma will come for you.

    Edit to add: I do still feel bad for the common American who has no say in all of this and will eventually be the ones to pay the price for the stupidity of others. That does suck and I don’t consider them as part of my little hate boner. I’m purely focused on the US as a nation and the idiots in charge who do a terrible job.

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    They even flew over bloodbags and all live ammo. They were ready for a fight.

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    Might want to keep that one in your back pocket. With Iran being too hard a target, the US might just turn to something easier to save face.

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        Most likely, yes. They don’t have the same kind of air defences or ability to strike back as Iran has, so it’s going to be a guerilla war, so they’ll have to eventually do something to save face and distract from the fact that they’re bogged down in a guerilla war in Cuba.

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    This is what kept germans and Others from taking over schweizerland as well. The country will become useless and unusable when they blow up all their mountain tunnels.

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    The article won’t load for me, but why destroy it when you can just put large heavy things on it?

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      Because you can drop a few people with parachutes who can move the large heavy things? Plus it’s a lot quicker if you’re not expecting any warning.

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        On top of that, repairing a bunch of well made and well placed craters in a runway sufficiently for heavy transport aircraft to use it again, tends to be a bit difficult, especially if all the heavy construction machinery you can steal nearby happens to be broken, and perhaps something stupid has happened to all locally available (imported) ready to use construction material for some reason, too. (Imagine someone dumping all the gravel into the sea, pissing on the cement, and lighting the asphalt on fire)

        Preparing to destroy installations and resources an enemy can use in case of an invasion is a very old and very useful tactic. The impact of this is especially high with logistical installations in places where there are few locally available resources, so everything has to be brought in by the enemy. Logistics do win wars. Lack thereof does the opposite.

        Since Europe was assumed to be the front line of WW3 during the entire Cold War, pretty much all European countries have quite some experience with preparing infrastructure useful to the enemy for demolition. Many bridges and other important parts of transportation infrastructure constructed during that era have been built with prepared shafts for planting explosives for that very reason. How to blow up road- and runways to cause maximum disruption is very well researched. There even is specialised equipment for drilling demolition shafts into existing roadways.

        It is very telling that the Wikipedia article on prepared obstacles in that context only exists in German and Dutch.