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Danish Red-Greens Back Militarism: “Global Disarmament” Through More Bombs
At its recent party congress, Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance, the furthest left you get in the Nordic hermit kingdom’s parliamentary politics, approved a defense policy endorsing the Social Democrat-led right-wing regime’s plans for massive military buildup.
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The new Red-Green policy paper calls for “strengthening Danish national defense” to “protect the people and our infrastructure” and “enforce sovereignty” in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. No budget is specified, but the message is clear: more weapons, more troops, more spending.
Party leaders justify this shift by citing threats from “authoritarian forces in the east and the west,” equating inconsequential European pouting over Trump with real military escalation toward Russia and China. The fantasy of Danish troops defending Greenland from a U.S. invasion seems more to be designed to placate skeptical voters than rooted in reality — and few are convinced.
“It’s naive to think Denmark can defend itself against the USA, which has the world’s largest military,” said Lasse Bertelsen, board member of the Copenhagen House Painters’ Union. “We’ve already given the Americans a large base in Greenland, so we’re behind before this paper is even written.”
The Danish military is not designed to resist U.S. imperialism, it’s designed to support it. The idea that you could send U.S.-made F-35s, which require daily software codes from Washington, to bomb American invaders is laughable.
The new policy tries to square support for rearmament with the party’s nominal commitment to “common global disarmament.” For critics like Bertelsen, it’s a dishonest attempt to please all sides. “The document tries to say something that makes both sides happy, and ends up saying nothing real,” he said.
He also criticized the leadership’s pursuit of parliamentary respectability. “The party is letting parliament’s mood influence it far too much,” he said, noting that when right-wing tabloid BT can push Red-Green leadership into policy shifts, “something’s wrong.”
Municipal councillor Helge Bo Jensen from Albertslund pointed to recent polling: “35% of Danes oppose rearmament. Who will represent them if not the Red-Greens?”
Jensen also warned of the economic cost. “We’re already talking about how rearmament will impact our ability to provide welfare,” he said. “Even if it’s not the Red-Greens’ official line to cut welfare, the sums involved make it hard to imagine otherwise.”
In 2023, the Red-Greens dropped their commitment to leaving NATO or abolishing the military, claiming this would require an undefined “alternative,” a rhetorical fig leaf masking a surrender to the imperialist mainstream.
Now, NATO talking points are repeated without critique. The leadership gestures vaguely toward disarmament, but in practice, they’re cheerleading the bombs—not opposing them.
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- Enhedslistens nye forsvars- og sikkerhedspolitik placerer dem solidt på oprustningens side, Arbejderen, June 14th
Nature is healing
I have thought about the docks myself. Destroying docks would disrupt military logistics as well as cause significant economic disruption, incentivising settlers to leave Palestine and go back to safety in their home countries. I don’t know how easy it is to cause enough lasting and effective damage to modern docks with missiles though. I would imagine that they are more spread out than other types of targets.
Historical accuracy or not, if the purpose of the parade was to inspire patriotic fervor at home and display menacing military power abroad it failed to do either.
If we assume that wars are ultimately won by the side with the greatest industrial capacity, how is the Iran-zionist war going?
The illegal zionist entity is a fascist militarised society and enjoy western backing. Arms exports made up a large part of their economy, at least pre-war. I would imagine they would have a non-neglible military-industrial complex. Western support also means that the industrial capabilities of the west are also, at least to some extent, part of the zionist war effort.
I don’t know much about the Iranian economy or Iranian manufacturing but they have suffered under western economic warfare for decades. They have managed to be very innovative in drone and missile tech and have built large stockpiles which indicates serious capacity.
Are there any good comparisons of the economic sides of this war?
Are you kidding? That plant is generating more thermal energy than ever before
3·2 days agoBingo. Western philosemitism is just another face of antisemitism.
7·2 days agoOutdoor cats have been cancelled, try an *outpour cat *instead who will talk to you for hours about it’s feelings and anxieties.
The house cat is a relic of a bygone era. Nobody can afford a house any more. Choose a room cat instead. These cats are smaller and more lazy, better adopted to the optimized living spaces of the modern rental housing market.
Kitty cats represents problematic and outdated feline ideals centered on passivity and seeking external validation for their cuteness. Modern cat enthusiasts prefer the more independent, more confident shitty cat who will swear, smoke and tell you to fuck off.
16·2 days agoThe best thing to say about lib mass protests is that they can possibly be the wide end of a radicalisation funnel for a few people.
But other than that I don’t see them having much effect.
It probably looked good to the beancounters and efficiency consultants but I don’t think it is militarily wise to have just one centrally placed launch site.
I read it in this order:
- We are viscounts (type of fancylad)
- We are viscous (we are a fluid)
- We are vicious (we are mean)
I am tired.
When the one with the cock falls, the one who is following picks up the cock and continues jerking!
I doubt it would have much military value but I would be lying if I said that it wouldn’t be really funny.
I don’t know missile tech but if the Zionists’ “Iron Dome” was worth anything, wouldn’t you be able to see interceptor missiles targeting the incoming missiles? I’m not an expert but this looks more like the Iron Dud to me.
I hope it killed a lot of evil people
Right after the Al-Aqsa Flood my dad was pontificating about how the illegal Zionist entity was a a forward defensive post, guardian western civilization against the barbarian islamic hordes. A beacon of democracy, intelligence and civilization, surrounded by evil villains. The Jewish people were presenting as some super-intelligent, super-civilized super-westerners.
The other day he unprompted told me that the zionists were committing genocide and that the illegal zionist entity should never have been founded in the first place. He then veered into talking about how it was “the Jews” who were doing the atrocities.
There are only so many massacres you can witness before you start thinking the perpetrators are the baddies.
A few hundred slow drones without volleys of ballistic missiles coming behind them were never going to have any impact. The illegal zionist entity has wrll-developed air defences and their American overlords and the US puppet states are helping shoot the drones down. You need more force to get through that.
There is no way Iran didn’t know this. This means two things, either the unprovoked US-zionist terror attacks effectively wiped out Iranian missile deterrence capabilities or the Iranian leadership is scared of a full-scale war with the US and the illegal zionist entity and have opted to do only symbolic retaliation and to take yet another brazen terrorist attack on the chin.
When I read that Iran had launched 100 drones in retaliation for the unprovoked US-zionist terror attack I thought that was a really low number, far from enough to have any impact against an enemy like the US and the illegal zionist entity. Are the Iranians scared of a full-scale war and trying to deescalate by only doing a symbolic retaliation but otherwise taking yet another brazen terrorist attack on the chin?
Not at all. They are still human.
There should be safe humanitarian corridors, allowing settlers to leave Palestine for the safety of their home countries.