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[โ€“] azimir@lemmy.ml 20 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Denmark doesn't need to worry because both medical ships the US can deploy are still in dry dock. Unless Alabama itself is moving towards Greenland, the ship is just not showing up.

[โ€“] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 32 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If that's true the sequence of events will be something like:

  • Trump demands the ship be sent immediately because he doesn't understand what "dry dock" is.
  • Someone in the chain of command who understands how bad that is uses proper channels to politely call for a small delay.
  • That officer is immediately fired. Right-wing media starts rumor they are a trans immigrant when a document from 2012 is found where they listed pronouns.
  • The officer is replaced with a 26-year-old toadie who has a background in podcasting about flat earth.
  • Toadie immediately sends the ship.
  • Ship sustains heavy damage from corrosion because it wasn't painted yet, or some shit.
  • The hospital ship spends 90 days sitting off-shore in Greenland. During this time it treats a handful of patients who, it later turns out, got paid to be there and aren't even citizens of Greenland.
  • Ship returns to USA to actually do the refit, where it turns out the damage is now catastrophic.
  • Jared Kushner receives contract to build replacement ship, named "USS TRUMP 12" because we have 11 other USS TRUMPs.
  • The money changes hands.
  • The ship is never built.
  • This is only reported by Common Dreams.

edit: fuck it, made it more elaborate.

[โ€“] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So the medical ships are as useful to Greenland as American hospitals are to most Americans.

[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

They're about as useful as the American justice system is at prosecuting wealthy pedophiles.

[โ€“] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago

Yup, both the USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are currently in Mobile, AL for refits.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=7390454 https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=7390478

Mercy for a 1 year long maintenance period that began last July and the Comfort on a 3+ month period that began last month.

[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago

Looks like they have floating docks there. They can just tow the floating docks to Greenland.