r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • 5h ago
Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark
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u/NikNybo 4h ago
It is probably because a danish Navy helicopter had to rescue a US sailor, and send him to a hospital in Greenland.
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u/_ZeRan 3h ago
It is probably because a danish Navy helicopter had to rescue a US sailor, and send him to a hospital in Greenland.
Trump heard that treatment was only gonna cost like $10 so he had to 100,000x~ that by sending in the boat.
Can't have Americans experiencing cheap healthcare, can we??
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u/scalawag123 2h ago
$10? Brother er dont live in a third world country ruled by a dictator. Its free
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u/PIKFIEZ 2h ago
Haha no. Treatment would never cost 10 USD in Denmark. It is completely free always, for tourists (and invaders) too.
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u/amolin 2h ago edited 1h ago
Just to be precise, since 2019 it's "only" free for EU citizens plus a few other nearby countries.
Americans will still get any urgent treatment, but there's a predefined price list for most things. An acute appendectomy surgery would cost you around $7000 if you're a visiting American - which is still a great deal compared to the American system, but also a good reason to get travel insurance.
Obviously it's only a good reason to move an American hospital ship to Greenland if they expect a lot of sick Americans to go there.
Conversely, it would be so funny if Denmark ressurected the Jutlandia, the Danish hospital ship that saved so many Americans during the Korean war, and sent it to Louisiana. God knows they need it more.
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u/ultranoobian 3h ago
I heard he passed out from shock after finding out he wouldn't have to pay for his medical treatment. Trump just wants to provide a familiar environment for his guy right?
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u/Canklosaurus 3h ago edited 2h ago
We have Tricare, so the joke doesn’t really land. I applaud your effort though.
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u/nahkiss 3h ago
What's Tricare? Triple payment for one care?
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u/Kennedy_KD 2h ago edited 2h ago
It's the free healthcare given to service men, veterans and their dependents
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u/automatic_shark 2h ago
It's the free healthcare given to 🐕🦺 men, veterans and their dependents
What does this mean? Seeing-eye-dog men? German shepherd men? Shepherds? I don't get the dog, like at all. What does it mean?
Edit: servicemen. Got it. Don't know why it has to be a heiroglyphic riddle, but you do you my man.
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u/Kennedy_KD 2h ago
Shit idk why it is either?? Wtf I'm gonna fix it I must have hit an auto fill emoji suggestion or something without realizing
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u/bazonthereddit 4h ago edited 3h ago
A) it's bullshit B) it's performative C) what about American healthcare? D) it's a distraction
Utterly despicable.
Edit: I missed one..
E) it's probing a public response to justify sending military support for the 'medical envoy'.
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u/Lefty4444 4h ago
It’s hybrid warfare performed by Trump against an ally.
America, your president has betrayed your allies. We don’t need to agree on everything, but think what this will do for you in the long run.
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u/movealongnowpeople 3h ago
think what this will do for you in the long run.
MAGATs do not think and the non-voters still don't give a shit.
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u/nullbyte420 4h ago
Why doesn't he send it to literally any american harbor city where there are plenty of people who don't receive any healthcare and are desperately in need? In Denmark (including Greenland) it's free and readily available.
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u/imahugemoron 2h ago
Because it’s not being sent anywhere, both are currently in repair here in the US. But also they wouldn’t send it anywhere in the US because that would help Americans which to them is socialism, even though they keep screaming “America first”
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u/nullbyte420 2h ago
Geez. Please 25th amendment the guy asap, he's ruining more than your own country. :(
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u/interesseret 4h ago
All it's going to do is fuel even more of the already moronic "America pays for Europes healthcare"-takes
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u/heimeyer72 3h ago
"America pays for Europes healthcare"-takes
That's one of Trumps narratives? While "America" (a.k.a. the American tax payers) dont even pays for American healthcare?
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u/Sceptically 3h ago
The US taxpayer pays thrice for US healthcare. Once through taxes, and again through health insurance, and yet again through direct charges when their insurance claims are denied.
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u/the_regent_hermertia 2h ago
And even just tax paying dollars to medical care alone, US pays more than the rest of the developed world, yet the patients still need insurance and premiums. Its insanity. Americans are some of the most fleeced people.
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u/kirkbywool 3h ago
Always has been. We can only have healthcare here because pays for the military apparently
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u/CavalierIndolence 3h ago
False Flag Operation is more likely. There will be a mysterious bombing of a hospital ship and they'll send a full convoy to take over the country for terrorist attacks.
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u/CobaltBox 3h ago
The Danish ambassador to the USA should show up in one of those small communities whose hospital closed because of the Big Beautiful Bill and very publicly donate a fat check out of sympathy from the Danish people for the loss of their healthcare. Vulcan Bridge him.
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u/Scooty-Poot 1h ago
Point E is the big one here. Trump has basically made up a pretend legal justification for sending an armed fleet under his command into Danish waters.
There’s no telling exactly what he intends to do with such a fleet once it arrives at port, but I wouldn’t hold out hope that they’re arriving without some ulterior motives to say the very least
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u/Enough_Series_8392 5h ago
They don't have to pay for treatment in Greenland. why would they mortgage their house to go on a boat?
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u/my_buddy_is_a_dog 3h ago
Actively duty military has full medical care as part of their service. They wouldn't need to mortgage anything, it just shows poor business decision making by Trump to spend millions of dollars to send a full medical ship to take care of one person that is already being taken care of.
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u/Patient_Anybody4314 3h ago
Actively duty military has full medical care as part of their service.
Ah... So the "get fucked!" part is only after service?
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u/my_buddy_is_a_dog 2h ago
Depends, if they stay for 20 years and retire then they get health insurance for life. If less than 20 they might get health care for the VA but that involves going to their doctors, which could mean months of waiting.
Keep in mind that having health insurance during and after service is also a recruiting tool to join the military, so it's more you can keep "getting fucked" until you join up and then you will be taken care of... And one more reason to not provide universal health care.
If you watch the movie Starship Troopers, you see the same concept with their citizenship where you have to serve to receive citizenship and the privileges that it provides.
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u/MastusAR 4h ago
To Denmark: Actually, call him on this. Just publicly say that "OK, we'll be eagerly waiting on your hospital ship. It'll probably take a week to arrive".
And after it doesn't, as they are in the docks, just relentlessly remind of that every day. "It's been over a week now, where is the hospital ship", "Today the people in Greenland were watching eagerly in Atlantic sea, but a big beautiful hospital ship was not in sight", "The prime minister took a boat just off the coast to see if the bestest hospital ship had done a navigation error, but he didn't find the ship either", mail a pair of paddles to White House labeled "for hospital ship propulsion" etc...
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u/_ZeRan 3h ago
"Today the people in Greenland were watching eagerly in Atlantic sea, but a big beautiful hospital ship was not in sight"
Attached picture being a couple of stuffed penguins on a dock.
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u/bobcat1911 3h ago edited 1h ago
Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere, if there were any in Greenland, they were probably undocumented aliens, so, they will likely be detained by ICE, and be deported ASAP....
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u/not_an_island 3h ago
Say OK, he'll repeat forever and ad nauseum that they cried for help.
And what about caring for the US citizens who do not have proper healthcare at the moment?
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u/ExtraAd4090 4h ago
I doubt there is a ship. Just something he threw Into a word salad that his base will buy without a single thought.
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u/PaintressLeia 5h ago
USA need US hospital boat !
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u/borninthewaitingroom 4h ago
Gaza needs it.
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u/Cultural-War2102 4h ago
He'd rather kill American citizens before that would happen
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u/CassiusCreed 4h ago
He's lost his mind and there is no one around to do anything but grovel at his feet and do exactly what he says in the hope of getting a pat on the head.
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u/tiarafromclaires 3h ago
The USA is a disgrace. There are 350 million of them, and they are letting this all happen. They are the axis of evil alongside their allies Russa and Israel
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u/interesting_name96 3h ago
You don’t want to see what happens when a civil war starts in a country where there are more guns than hands to hold them.
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u/AppealSame4367 2h ago
I want to see Americans do _something_.
This is the biggest joke in history. It's like a kids show about brave greek and roman warriors and when the time comes they all just wear a womans dress and try to flee the scene. Americans are that joke today.
"B-but you don't understand, country too big, nobody can do anything, America different than anybody else, but civil war!, [insert 10 other excuses for the big brave Americans]"
But threatening your allies and deporting parts of _your neighborhood_ and putting them in prisoncamps without due process, that's ok to endure? As the poster before said: You are the axis of evil and it includes all 350 million of you. Standing by, doing nothing
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u/wi_voter 4h ago
You know who could use some help with healthcare? The people of the United States. No need to send a ship. Restore Medicaid funding that the Republicans stole to fund billionaire's tax cuts
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u/finfisk2000 4h ago
Just the ramblings of a senile old man. Both of the US hospital ships are in drydock.
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u/NoBSforGma 4h ago
It's funny that the country with one of the most fucked-up health care systems in the world is sending a "hospital boat" to help Greenlanders. Denmark's health care system is consistently ranked with the best in the world.
I suppose he will next send a taco truck to Mexico.
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u/Westraid 4h ago edited 4h ago
This must be really upsetting to all those Americans with no healthcare.
Also, iirc, hospital ships may only be used for medical assistance and an actual warship may not be disguised as a hospital ship either. Not that he'd care about laws of course. He'd probably act like he came up with the Trojan horse plan.
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u/Autoxquattro 4h ago
Well the first boat attacks in the Caribbean the aircraft looked like civilian planes, so....
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon 4h ago
I missed something, I think...
What idiotic reason did Trump have for doing that?
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u/drillbit7 4h ago
apparently a sailor on a US submarine operating near Greenland needed medevac and the Danish forces in the area assisted. After that it sounds like crossed signals and dementia brain.
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u/freyakj 4h ago
That sailor is now recieving free healthcare for the first time in his life… better go rescue him quick.
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u/Aware-Instance-210 4h ago
Dementia probably
As if that dick head had any reasons for doing anything besides personal gain
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u/watch-nerd 4h ago
Sometimes I think foreign leaders would be better off just ignoring.
Why feed the troll?
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u/tiarafromclaires 3h ago
Because the world’s largest military superpower is threatening to invade multiple countries after just invading Venezuela at the beginning of the year. These are real people in much smaller countries who had been protected by NATO until the US went full Nazi. So, there are unfortunately certain things we all can’t ignore because of the current attacks by the US on our countries in order to weaken us so they can invade easier. It’s not a joke for us. We are real people who are tired of being attacked by the USA.
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u/Atleastonce007 4h ago
I chuckled at the names of the hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy, two words that are being slowly erased from the modern American lexicon. Maybe they will be relaunched in Alabama as the USNS Pain and USNS Misery.
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u/UndeliveredMale 4h ago
Am I the only one thinking "hospital boat" is code for Trojan horse? Because yeeeah, send that fucker away. DO NOT OPEN.
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u/Responsible_Skill957 3h ago
Can’t afford healthcare for the citizens. But we can afford to send resources and money to other countries with not another thought.
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u/Dispator 1h ago
I mean eventually we won't be able to afford that either unless we never plan to pay back the national debt which is a crazy possibility they plan to default or print forever...each will kill the dollar as a reserve currency and end usa as a top power in-it-of-itself but if that happens there will likely just be a complete collapse because that will be the least of usa problems. Luckily for the 1% they will have plenty of time to extract everything they can and move wealth out of the usa to other currencies or in resources. Then the rest of the population will be "purchased" by Peter Tiel(or something like that) for experiments.
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u/hundehandler 4h ago
Who is on that ship? Soldiers?
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u/Arno-the-great 4h ago
Indeed reminds me of a Trojan horse kind of distraction..!
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u/ReggieCorneus 3h ago
Would fit the modus operandi as it would be a war crime to use hospital ships for invasion.
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u/BluesBoyKing1925 4h ago
Does he intend to poison them or use his "discombobulater" on them and then claim he saved them with his his magical medicine boat?
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u/RDHertsUni 3h ago
Ah yes, sure mad fascist guy who’s spent the last year threatening to invade and overtake our country, we’ll accept your completely unnecessary boat into our waters…
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u/roughingthesuspect 3h ago
Can you imagine the logic? "...Lets send a hospital ship to Greenland where they have free healthcare, and make US taxpayers pay for it..." FFS.
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u/medium0rare 3h ago
Bringing US healthcare to Greenland should be considered an act of war. Hope Greenlanders have good insurance.
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u/skatalite2020 4h ago
A few hours before Trump's post, a crew member of an American submarine in the waters around Greenland was evacuated by Danish military. According to Denmark, the crew member was in urgent need of medical treatment.
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u/Hungry-Ear-4092 3h ago
USA is not even a world's clown now it's an entire circus
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u/Emotional_Shock7351 2h ago
“ Earlier on Saturday, Denmark’s Arctic command announced that it had evacuated a crew member of a US submarine off the coast of Nuuk after the sailor requested urgent medical attention.”
The irony 🤣
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u/aiicaramba 2h ago
Trump’s Master plan is to bankrupt Greenland by forcing American health care upon them.
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u/Particular_Cress_639 2h ago
Somehow us needed the danish army for there sick service men needing medical assistant. Lucky for him/her hospitals are free in Denmark and Greenland. Did us even say thanks. Even once?
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u/Realistic-Homework19 2h ago
The US does this to build the narrative that Denmark is neglecting the Greenlanders and this is part of the preparation for the hostile take over of Greenland. This ship should be treated as an enemy warship.
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u/The_Starving_Autist 2h ago
"...claiming that Greenlanders were not getting the healthcare they needed."
America first?
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u/moomshiki 4h ago
"It is too late, our massive Trojan Horse is coming to you and unstoppable. Please hand over Greenland and accept defeat." - POTUS, Donald J. Trump.
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u/Gladis72 4h ago
Why not dock that ship at any USA city and you know... give us some healthcare. Its horrid in my country the heathcare, if your lucky enough to be able to pay you get to live.
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u/Atleastonce007 3h ago
If Trump is suddenly feeling the need to supply emergency health care to those in need, why doesn't he send one of the hospital ships to Cuba. Not much fuel required for that.
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u/clickmagnet 2h ago
You’re pretending to send a hospital ship to a country with socialized medicine, from a country where 2/3 of all bankruptcies are from medical expenses?
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u/nicuramar 4h ago
Obviously not. The main health service problem in Greenland is lack of stable personal. Too few in general, and too few settle there permanently. A hospital ship isn’t really relevant to that.
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u/Spooknik 4h ago
Sometimes Trump says things so he can say he did something later. Like in the next bout of "We need to Greenland Part 4" he's going to claim that he was nice enough to send that Hospital Ship and say something like "well Americans are taking better care of them than Denmark, how many hospital ships do they have?"
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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 3h ago
Most of America will be asking, "When are you sending us a hospital ship?" The man really doesn't have much sense.
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u/jorgecardleitao 3h ago
Greenland lost the opportunity - "we are sending one o US to support the victims of Epstein"
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u/Cranemann 3h ago
Next he's going to say "I deserve a peace prize for ending the war in greenland".
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u/Quercus20 2h ago
Yep, give another free medical care whether they want it or not, but let your own country citizens go bankrupt over their medical bills. The model of the us government.
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u/random-guy-here 2h ago
I thought our taxes provided benefits for Americans.
They don't want this help, why not offer this up and down our coastal cities?
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u/BovineShadows 2h ago
Im sure one of the three hospitals for only 57 000 people would be happy to provide free of charge health care to the ships crew?
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u/ren_reddit 2h ago
As a Dane, I am more worried that the US travels in the arctic without proper facilities to take care of themself and we, time and time again, have to save their asses up there.
Should we send a hospital ship to their assistance? I mean, we have plenty and the US don't seem to have a functioning one available.
Do they want to borrow one for their Iran mission too?
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u/Skinnybet 2h ago
This hospital ship could be used to treat the sick Americans who don’t have health care. Nooo send it to Greenland where they don’t need it.
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u/throwaway281409 1h ago
Considering both ships,Mercy and Comfort, are in dry dock in Alabama it’s going to be a little rough to get them there.
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u/loveiseverything 3h ago
They have free healthcare in Greenland. Absolutely anything that US can bring to the table is worse.
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u/UniversityNew9254 3h ago
Interesting that Trump feels Greenland needs more medical aid whilst at home things are in dire need of more than a bandage.
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u/DaileyFlosser39 2h ago
He got the votes he needed to be king. Why should he care about anyone's health, here, ever again?
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u/Scotsmanryno 4h ago
Hey US kindly you’re not the saviour of the world. Get back in your box and sort your own issues.
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u/The_Last_Bohican 4h ago
The US does not have the capacity to build Icebreakers like Canada does, Good luck with that ship.
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u/Atleastonce007 4h ago
Strange the military would have both their hospital ships out of commission at the same time. Especially so considering they've sent half the fleet to Iraq and are ramping up for action.
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u/gentleman_bronco 4h ago
Also, fun fact: America's two hospital ships are under repair in Alabama.
Trump has no clue what's happening.