Royal Danish Air Force

Um, not too much.

Um, air observer was probably the biggest thing in this section that I really, like, kinda went back and forth on, 'cause I mean, as you said, and as you can see there, the Danish Air Force, uh, it was a non-entity when it came to the actual operation.

But, um, so on the one hand I was like, "Clearly they didn't have air support." And then the devil on my shoulder was like, "Well, they had planes before that, didn't they?"

Mm-hmm.

Um, they had a, they had some fighters, they had some observation planes.

They didn't have bombers that were doing close air support.

There was no real conception of that role for the Danish Air Force.

So even if they got planes in the air, the only thing that would actually make sense is a fighter doing that strafing.

I've been following the discourse about people saying, "Where do they look for solutions now?" And because of the concern about whether or not the United States might impose blocks on the use of the technology abroad, it's a bit like the debate about buying American fighter jets if the US government has a kill switch on them.

Um, and this is obviously for the Danish Air Force in Greenland has been a, an issue.

Uh, so there's now people are beginning to say, "Well, let's look elsewhere, like China, where there is a degree of stability." So, you know, I think that's, that's, uh, that's one of the things that's happening.

So I think mid-level powers coming together, other organizations like OECD, the International Standards Organization, that have some responsibility for a bit of the picture but could work together to provide something.

It's the main sea route through the Baltic for military and commercial shipping.

In recent years, Russian warships have harassed Danish Air Force and naval vessels, sailing on collision courses with them, aiming weapons at them, jamming their navigation systems.

Lithuania, Denmark, both NATO countries, Denmark was actually asked if they were going to invoke Article 5 over this.

I mean, think about this.