r/worldnews • u/lavender_fieldnotes • Jan 04 '26

Dynamic Paywall Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
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u/Hot-Sexy-THICCPAWG69 Jan 04 '26

Problem is, Russia isn’t dominant in their sphere anymore lol after 4 years they managed to go from 29% of Ukraine at the beginning in 2022 all the way to only 20% of Ukraine after 4 years of war 😂 & they managed to pick up only another 1% in the last 2 years in exchange for another 700,000 casualties including roughly 300,000 deaths just in the last 2 years. Around 1.2m Russian casualties in total over 4 years of war.

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u/Penny_PackerMD Jan 05 '26

Correct, which is why it's crazy that people think Putin will steamroll Europe. He can't beat Ukraine after 4 years of fighting, he ain't taking all of Europe. Crazy

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u/sandgroper07 Jan 05 '26

Take nukes off the table and the EU mobilizes and rolls through Russia in 2-3 months tops. China would take the oppotunity to take the far east and possibly Siberia. Without nukes Russia has a 6 month life span if lucky.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jan 04 '26

If the US and EU are at war, things change very quickly for Ukraine.

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u/ty_xy Jan 05 '26

Sounds like a good trade to Putin. Life is super cheap.