American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
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Maybe the Danish navy could return the favor by sending a ship to Louisiana?
Offer poor people in Florida Danish health care plans?
Danish Maritime enters partnership with the international humanitarian organisation Mercy Ships - Danske Maritime
Hope and healing. These are the key words for the international humanitarian organisation Mercy Ships, ...
Danske Maritime (danskemaritime.dk)
Danish Hospital Ship "Jutlandia" - New Contribution to Unified Command in Korea
The hospital ship ""Jutlandia"" (8,500 gross tons) one of Denmark's contributions to United Nations aid in Korea. It took the shipyards several months to turn the former transatlantic liner into a modern, floating hospital. The cargo holds were turned into hospital wards with a total capacity of 200 patients; with additional emergency berths, the ship can take up to 400 in-patients. Three main clinics were installed with two full operating theatres. There is also a dental clinic, X-ray laboratory, dispensaries, library, etc. The total medical and nursing staff is 100, and a crew of 160 keeps the ship going. Photo shows: Presentation of United Nations flag to Commodore Kai Hammerich, chief of the expedition, by Mr. Viggo Christensen, right, Director of the UN Information Center in Copenhagen. The ship will sail under three flags; the Danish national flag, the flag of the International Red Cross and the United Nations colours flying from her top mast. [No exact date] [This is an unprocessed archival image and not available for download. If you would like to use this image, please contact the UN Photo Library.]
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Guess where this US hospital ship seems to be coming from… Louisiana.
Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland
Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.
NPR (www.npr.org)
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Guess where this US hospital ship seems to be coming from… Louisiana.
Danish military evacuates U.S. submariner who needed urgent medical care off Greenland
Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment.
NPR (www.npr.org)
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl
The Greeks sent a horse to Troy.
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@mc the funny thing is, he cannot get that ship into Nuuk harbor without permission.
@randahl my guess is neither TACO nor Whiskey-Pete thought about that. it's just the old and boring "hej, look - a squirrel!"-game.
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@notsoloud @Vonskinnback @randahl
The amount of money governments like this can create has no limit.
Inflation becomes a problem when the resources a market can provide do not match that investment.
This is the real limit to government spending: the people doing the work, the missing specialists for difficult tasks, the materials that are needed, missing infrastructure and so on.Anything a government can produce can always be financed.
@markus_falk @notsoloud @Vonskinnback @randahl The US has an even more special position in this regard, at least for now: the Dollar being the de-facto world currency means that you can issue debt (print money) like there’s no tomorrow, because Dollar debt used to be a desirable (and tradable) asset. Which the US has been living off for decades, at this point.
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Donald Trump ignores the vastly destructive problems he creates. As a fantasist, he prefers to invent problems that don't exist, so he can confidently and easily fix them.
So it is with saying he will send a hospital ship to Greenland, to care for the sick, something Greenland's universal healthcare system already does.
Meanwhile, Trump deprives his own people of health care and insurance, and destroys their public health infrastructure. The man is an obscenity.
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@AnnieBuddy @randahl "hospital" ship is bringing brain worms and ivormectin.
@deadDuck @AnnieBuddy @randahl do you suppose the "caregivers" are all vaccinated?
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl no, it's time for brain removal.
If I was Greenland, I would refuse them at all ports and tell them to go the fuck home before they torpedo it or strafe it like Venezuelan boats.
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@rjohnston you think he is preparing for a false flag attack on a United States ship?
@randahl It's just such a bizarre proposal. And I've never heard of an ice-reinforced hospital ship from Louisiana. Damage seems inevitable.
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl Time to reset the "Days since I've read the dumbest thing in my life so far by Trump" counter.
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@randahl
I am not aware of a hospital icebreaker existing anywhere in the world.Besides that the US has only veryvery few arctic-capable ships anyway, none of them even remotely resembling a hospital ship. It has a reason why Greenland's/Denmark's marine mostly consists of coast patrol sized boats: ever tried evading the many icebergs around Greenland with a bigger ship?
(Edit : sentence had double parts had have)
@vampirdaddy @randahl And the actual hospital ships they have are both in dry dock for year-long refurbishing.
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl Somebody must have just told him the story of the Trojan horse. He thinks he’s being brilliant.
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@markus_falk @randahl with both ships seems to be in dry dock for maintenance, it backfires badly the moment they decide to interrupt that.
Update:
Trump Announces Greenland Hospital Ship Mission as Mercy and Comfort Sit in Alabama Shipyard
https://gcaptain.com/trump-announces-greenland-hospital-ship-mission-as-mercy-and-comfort-sit-in-alabama-shipyard/@vosje62 @markus_falk @randahl Or it's a play, he's not sending them (due to dry dock) and sending something else? I mean he thinks if he says it then everyone in the world will believe it's true.
If I was Denmark/Europe, I'd be taking a closer watch at what is approaching Greenland from the US now.
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@vosje62 @markus_falk @randahl Or it's a play, he's not sending them (due to dry dock) and sending something else? I mean he thinks if he says it then everyone in the world will believe it's true.
If I was Denmark/Europe, I'd be taking a closer watch at what is approaching Greenland from the US now.
I don't care what he does...
In this it is totally his problem.
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl Do we know the name of the ship? Would it hapen to be "Delay. Deny. Defend."
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@randahl maybe they should send the ship where it's most needed. How about Louisiana?
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I don't care what he does...
In this it is totally his problem.@vosje62 It’s everyone’s problem if he sends a warship. @jasonb @markus_falk @randahl
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@vosje62 It’s everyone’s problem if he sends a warship. @jasonb @markus_falk @randahl
@heinlenstein @jasonb @markus_falk @randahl
Nothing moved so far.
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American tax payers will now pay for a hospital ship which will be sent to Greenland, Trump claims on Truth Social.
Let me rephrase that: The US, which does not offer free healthcare to its own people, wants it's own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare.
Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
@randahl so the US has two hospital ships the USNS Mercy and the Comfort both with about 1000 Beds all told. This is 10 times the capacity of Greenland's own hospital facilities.
For a lot of maladies Greenland's people are sent to mainland Denmark far away from friends and relatives and referred to the Rigshospitalet.
So while, for US citizens picking up the bill, this might seem questionable, as a hearts and minds exercise it may not be that stupid.
I guess the real question is, what happens when the orange one gets bored or offended or starts a war with a country with some military capability. Will Denmark suddenly find itself having to ship 1K patients back to Europe?
