- 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.
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.
Yes. Honestly… The plan is to oblige to the NATO 2% requirement, which means that we will need to invest in war production instead of just clinging to old stocks. So even as bad as it is to increase a budget for something that we don’t need, it’s still better for Denmark to restart the production and give away the old stock. Denmark has reopened an old ammunition factory (which had been an eyesore for 50 years) and also collaborating with Germany on the bigger calibers.
Basically, Denmark is investing domestically, in EU and in Ukraine, and it’s all according to agreement with NATO. (Regardless of Trump’s stupid speech the other day, this needs to be done.)
It’s like donating old bread before it goes bad. Let’s hope the Ukrainians can find a Russian head to use it at, because we don’t need it now, but we’re obliged to keep production up.
Too Good to go, but with weaponry.
Russia
blitzing
Does not compute
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
right to self determination
Some stateless nations in europe have something to say.
What a super relevant and definitely good faith point to bring up!
Thank you for your helpful and constructive comment on the matter, no doubt in good faith. It would have been a pity if, instead of arguing, you had thrown a pathetic judgment on the author’s intentions.
“Wow denmark’s doing a good thing I hope others follow”
“Reee what about completely unrelated bad things Spain has done”
Why would anyone even bother arguing with that, engaging further with you wastes everyone’s time
You forget one comment between the post and mine. It’s a simple thread, is it that hard for you to follow it? Or did you just catch a tantrum because someone, for the first time ever, has diverted the main topic of the post?
I don’t know if you’re a troll, but whatever, get lost.
what does this mean
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.
Thank you for the answer.
What does that have to do with Denmark and Ukraine?
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.
The first Pop-Tarts came in four flavors: strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and apple currant, which was soon renamed apple-berry.
*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.
You go Denmark!
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!!
I think it’s a very laudable act (if action follows words).
I think in terms of the rest of Europe, and especially NATO countries in Europe, we should certainly be providing everything we can while still being careful to provide enough means for our own defence. This is especially true with the threat (however realistic) of another Trump presidency, which could leave us on our own in this regard.
Provided we have our own Europe-wide defence covered though, yes we should be giving all the aid we can to Ukraine.
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.
Is there a reason why Biden can bypass congress to sell arms to Israel but not Ukraine?
edit: thanks for the answers
Sell is the keyword there.
Israel bought weapons.
Ukraine CAN buy weapons
Biden cannot gift weapons without congress approval
selling arms versus giving them the arms, for starters.
I’ve been wondering about this as well. My guess is there’s already standing legislation specific to Israel that enumerates such powers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Mette Frederiksen appealed to other European nations to do more to help Ukraine in its fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces.
“This is not only a question about production, because we have weapons, we have ammunition, we have air defense that we don’t have to use ourself at the moment, that we should deliver to Ukraine.”
It comes as Ukrainian forces withdrew from the key eastern town of Avdiivka amid severe munitions shortages.
The Danish announcement will come as particularly welcome news in Ukraine as its military has been starved of artillery shells, forcing it to scale back some operations, Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told Reuters in December.
Meanwhile, in more positive news to alleviate the ammo famine, the Czech Republic says it could supply 800,000 shells to the Ukrainian military.
The EU is taking leadership and responsibility in support for Ukraine; we know what is at stake," President of the European Council Charles Michel said at the time, per Reuters.
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