• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        It’s amusing you think laws and police have any relevance when talking about armed conflict. Do you also wonder why Ukraine didn’t just send the police to arrest the incoming Russian invaders? After all, every Russian soldier on Ukrainian soil is violating numerous Ukrainian immigration, weapons, and trespassing laws. Why bother with the military. Just send the police to arrest them!

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          6 hours ago

          …You know, good point. If, for example, an American brings a gun to, IDK., Paris, and shoots someone, the only reasonable respone by France is to nuke Washington.

          • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            40 minutes ago

            We’re not talking about some miners with a handful of handguns. I would assume such a hostile mining operation would be guarded by heavily armed private military contractors, someone like Blackwater. Think machine guns mounted on Humvees. Maybe the militarized American police could handle it. But I imagine the Greenland cops would have some issues.

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          Yeah, it’s disturbing to think it might come to that. Any violent reaction from Greenland would be playing into their hands. Whatever they do needs to be broadcast for the world to see.

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        6 hours ago

        There’s a term for a police for that’s successfully deterred Western advances into their territory.

        The IRGC.

        Are you with the US?

        Or are you with the Terrorists?