1. The sudden end to the German Army deployment? Well....they flew out in business-class.
I asked the wife (German in nature)....if she thought they went to the business lounge at Nuuk Airport. She responded....if free beer were in the lounge, yeah, they probably lounged.
2. There's some rumor that Germany was told that US EUCOM in Stuttgart....had a order to evaluate the idea of closing bases if any European country was working against the Greenland acquisition.
I'm not giving the rumor much thought. There's probably a meeting every month where a priority list is drafted and reviewed....over and over.
3. Finally...some social media story came up that the US was gathering up data on airports and ports in Greenland.
Why bother? The intel-guys have the ASSotW 10-thousand page document which is a world index of all ports/airports....which has this data already existed....for 60-odd years.
There's simply a lot of BS going around this subject.
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I spent half my military career flying in the cargo area of C130's, C17's, C5's sleeping on frigging cargo nets and makeshift hammocks and these guys fly business class. WTF? They must be officers.
From what I can figure....the Germans don't have any military aircraft with 'legs' to reach Greenland. The Bundestag (for the Chancellor/cabinet) has a couple of jets but they weren't going to use them. So they flew tourist-class there (makes economic sense). Someone back in Berlin for Saturday determined this was a worthless mission and aggravating Trump...so they rigged up a last-minute 'leave-Greenland' ticket for Sunday....with business-class the only tickets left. Just my humble guess....per individual....flight there and back....near 2,000 Euro. So for the 15.....2 nights in a hotel with flight and meal-money....total of 40k Euro for the 'trip'.
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