F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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Not when the Danish Airforce use F35s.

Or Finland…

The US is the most powerful 3 season military in the world.

US can (effectively) shut down F35s remote.y

Which still makes Greenland safe. If neither side can get off the ground or convince their planes that they're in the air.

A scary proposition considering what the US is rapidly becoming

Now it makes sense why the US doesn’t care about climate change, winter is their weakness.

Purchasing F35s is paying tribute to the empire so it doesn't come down on you harder with tariffs and compliance burdens. It's not meant to actually be useful.

It still did not work, tho.

Yeah and the tariffs are still there anyway so I don't understand why we aren't following suite and cancelling those orders.

You don't have the leverage you think you have.

Yep, anyone paying billions in what is effectively tribute to this admin is only playing themselves considering the stable genius seems to flip the game board every 5 minutes.

The Vermont Air Guard has flown a contingent of 20 F-35s since 2020 without (so far) incident. https://www.158fw.ang.af.mil/

It did, they could have ended up like the Swiss

You understand that the Danish Airforce is Greenland's Airforce right? The Danish military is the official military of Greenland with an explicit agreement between the home rule parliament and the Danish Defence. Other than that all Greenlanders are danish citizens and are the danish state is obligated to defend them.

I guess the point was that planes are similarly useless/useful in both sides.

Russia also would probably like the Arctic to unfreeze a bit. (Ports, navigation etc)

They're betting on things going "back to normal" eventually. They have neither the imagination or courage to think otherwise.

If it does, the new president/ruling party will probably look favorably on those who respected the crown even when they hated the guy who wore it. Because that's how the normal is.

Finland just joined NATO, which means that they lost their neutrality and independency for foreign politics. It is now very difficult to do something completely different or unfrienly than the U.S. because of that one country with shared border.

If the U.S really takes more steps towards taking Greenland and works against NATO ally, then it might be very complicated situation for both Denmark and Finland, and the whole alliance. But until then Finland at least is stuck with the U.S.