• 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.
  • @positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
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    911 year ago

    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.

  • @newnton@sh.itjust.works
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    561 year ago

    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

        • Infiltrated_ad8271
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          01 year ago

          There are some nations in europe that attempt self-determination, without any recognition. For example catalonia had close to 50% support, but europe looked the other way; even after trying to organize a referendum on their own, being repressed with excessive violence and ending up with political prisoners, europe looked the other way.

            • Infiltrated_ad8271
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              01 year ago

              Nothing, and that’s fine. I don’t know if it’s because of fanaticism with the topic or what, but it seems strange to me that people get upset about this.

              But to try to clarify it better, the other user says that self-determination is one of the values of europe (to fight for), hence my comment.

              • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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                01 year ago

                The first Pop-Tarts came in four flavors: strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and apple currant, which was soon renamed apple-berry.

                • Infiltrated_ad8271
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                  01 year ago

                  *Sigh. Okay, I’ll take the bait and throw it harder.

                  Can the rest of you trolls and idiots respond here with some bullshit so I’ll block you? Thanks for helping me clean up.

  • @flyboy_146@lemmy.world
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    301 year ago

    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!!

    • wootz
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • @Droechai@lemm.ee
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        21 year ago

        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

        • @jqubed@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          Not if we keep global warming going at its current pace!

          Is global warming actually a Danish plot for security from Sweden?

          • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            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.

  • @Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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    -51 year ago

    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 :(