• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days 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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      2 days ago

      And we’re also not talking about Greenland police, we’re talking about the Kingdom of Denmark.

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        1 day ago

        Denmark wouldn’t send police. They would send troops. We’re talking specifically about the idea that you can just send regular police to arrest a hostile foreign mining operation.

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          Who’s “we”? And they would be wise to send both. Police involvement would be necessary because this is, at it’s core, a law enforcement operation, and the military, if for no other reason, for logistics. The foreign nature of the operation doesn’t fundamentally change things, and ther hostility is… let’s say contingent on other factors.