France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

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    3 days ago

    Are these really pure US bases though? My understanding is they are mainly NATO bases where the US is present as well.

    The footnote even says it: “at which DOD exercises some degree of operational control”

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      2 days ago

      Ramstein (and its surroundings) is de facto US territory that hosts F35 and most likely a bunch of nuclear warheads (officially there shouldn’t be any, but no one can really rely on that obviously).

      I have no clue about military stuff, so I don’t know how easily planes can be intercepted etc. but I doubt Europe’s capabilities are centred around jets flying from within Germany. How quickly can an F35 reach Paris?