This has worked very well in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is a giant island in the Arctic Ocean, populated by Inuit and people born on a pair of skis. If they don't want you here, they will make sure you freeze to death in a troop transporter stuck in the snow.
It would destroy NATO, the global financial system, our supply chains are so intertwined that pharmaceuticals, air transport, and most advanced technologies would be completely disrupted for years.
Intellectual property rights, judicial cooperation, international recognition, and all those things would be dead.
The UK is in a strange position, where it must have regulations that are fairly similar to those of the European Union in order to benefit from cross-recognition and not hinder trade with its main partner. In this case, NIS2.
But at the same time, they don't want to admit it and are rewriting these standards in a very specific way so that only British engineering firms and consultants can draft regulatory documents or ensure compliance.
It ensures a monopoly for these engineering firms and consultants.
So there are legitimate reasons for doing this, such as avoiding having to write reports and request authorizations from oneself, not having to disclose certain sensitive information, etc.
The right way to do this is to draft a framework law and a few decrees along the lines of “administrations XXX and YYY will apply NIS2 with the following exceptions and adaptations ....”
This avoids creating overly broad exemptions, ensuring that there is a reference framework, and preventing each administration from developing its own system.
This is very common in the arms and nuclear sectors, where many civil norms and standards clearly state “not applicable to nuclear” and the nuclear standard states “apply civil standard XXX, with the following specific provisions, the competent authority is the ONR.”
Declaring an overly broad exemption from the outset is not the right way to go about it.
They will play the same game as Russia. They will not annex the whole of Greenland and will try to keep the intensity below that which would justify a full-scale armed conflict.
They will claim to annex only the territory of the American bases, then it will be a 10-mile strip around the bases, access to the sea, airspace, the exclusive economic zone, etc.
They can play this game for months and years if we let them.
Crimea came under Russian control because it was home to Russia's largest naval base, Simferopol.
For most time series, noise in time measurement is negligible.
However, this does not prevent complex coupling phenomena from occurring for other parameters, such as GPS coordinates.
At the time when this took place in Berlin, in the Berlin Congress Center, which was rather small, there were only a few hundred seats available, and most of them had already been allocated before they even went on sale.
It was also a great excuse to spend New Year's Eve in Berlin.
They will let GI freeze to death in a vehicle stuck in the ice after sabotaging the roads. The Arctic climate is more deadly than any automatic rifle.
Militarily occupying Greenland seems even more foolish than occupying Vietnam or Afghanistan.
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