Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland

Underlying this are two serious questions which a lot of military forces probably had to remind themselves of after 2022's invasion of Ukraine:

- how do you tell when a threat is real or bluster? Especially from a speaker who makes blustering threats all the time

- how do you tell when a war has gone hot, without too much of a risk of false positives or negatives? (see also Stanislav Petrov)

How should Germany treat the 35.000+ US soldiers on their soil when the US invades our neighbor? We don't have that many cells for prisoners of war.

It's a provocative headline.

A more reasonable statement of the army standing orders / Rules of Engagement would be:

    > The military has authorization to counter-attack an *invading force* without waiting for further approval from the command chain

This is a standing order which dates back to 1952, and hasn't been created as a response to the recent aggressive posturing.

Finally someone with balls.

Americans reading this, please, get your mad dogs under control, one way or another.

What the hell has it come to.

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