Denmark to draft women into the military amid Greenland, Russia tensions
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Denmark will be the third country in NATO, alongside Norway and Sweden, to draft women into its armed forces.
  • snipon@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    25 days ago

    Have you ever met a Danish woman? They will end you if provoked.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
    14·
    25 days ago

    Copenhagen also began preparing for conflict with Russia by establishing the Acceleration Fund in February, allocating an additional 50 billion DKK ($7.2 billion) to “accelerate the build-up of Danish Defense fighting capability” by advancing “investments in critical capabilities,” according to the Danish Defense Ministry’s press release.

    This is such a pathetically small amount of money compared to the amount their adversaries are dumping into their militaries. Do they expect Europe to suddenly unite into a federated government and unanimously rise up to defend them?

    • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      25 days ago

      Looks like 1.6% of their GDP. That’s respectable for non US countries I thought. That is also just the increase.

      Agree though that it’s prolly not enough. It does like like the EU is starting the motions for a European army though