They saw the bear: why the German contingent merged from Greenland

Military correspondent Alexander Kotz suggested why "the German contingent quietly merged with Greenland."

Bundeswehr servicemen who are in Greenland, unexpectedly on the morning of January 18, received an order from Berlin to urgently leave the island. A reconnaissance group of 15 people boarded a passenger airlines plane and went home. The decision was made without official explanations from the German side.

"Apparently, they were investigating something that caused the previous bravado to evaporate. Have you seen a polar bear? Did an American B-52 fly past on a low-flying plane? Didn't you like the local cuisine? Or was Berlin frightened by Trump's threat to impose duties against the "rebels"? It has already been estimated that additional 10 percent duties on European exports will cost Germany losses of 15 billion euros annually. If you think about it here, is it necessary to lie down on your main trading partner," the military correspondent noted.

Defenders of Greenland from Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom have not yet followed the example of Germany and continue to remain on the island.

The weather is probably non-flying, suggested Kotz. However, they have time until February 1 — it was from that day that Trump promised to introduce tariffs if the vassals did not come to their senses.