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  • 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.
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[–] flyboy_146@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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!!

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 10 months ago

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.