2026 US-Denmark Tensions/End of NATO

[brihard]

Setting aside that both hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy, are docked in shipyard in Alabama and decidedly not loaded or sailing- anyone have any clue just WTF he’s talking about?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Setting aside that both hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy, are docked in shipyard in Alabama and decidedly not loaded or sailing- anyone have any clue just WTF he’s talking about?

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They'll probably just re-route a Carnival Cruise ship out of Miami.

It should be full of New York doctors

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I think DJT must have misunderstood one of his middle-of-the-night advisor: The only thing Greenlandic people are sick of is DJT and his shenanigans. A US hospital ship won't cure that.

 

[Baz]

He’s confused because a USN sub had to evacuate somebody to Greenland, and thought that Greenland is evacuating people to the sub.

 

[Good2Golf]

Setting aside that both hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy, are docked in shipyard in Alabama and decidedly not loaded or sailing- anyone have any clue just WTF he’s talking about?

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You mean other than him outing an US SSN lurking in Greenland’s territorial waters, and the Danish military coming to the recuse of one of the USN submariners?

Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark

Defence minister rebuffs US president’s claim that Arctic islanders are ‘not being taken care of’

www.theguardian.com

Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark has said, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he wants to acquire.

“The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland,” the country’s defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told the Danish broadcaster DR on Sunday.

In Greenland, as in Denmark, access to healthcare is free. There are five regional hospitals across the vast Arctic island, with the Nuuk hospital serving patients from all over the territory.

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, defended Denmark’s healthcare system, writing on Facebook that she was “happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all. Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment.”

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