Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 2 Dec 2025 06:05:11 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <10g52v4$3o78s$4@dont-email.me> <10g7bqf$j278$2@dont-email.me> <10gekqm$39ian$3@dont-email.me> <10gh60o$83hq$4@dont-email.me> <8F_WQ.75605$TwW8.61488@fx13.iad> <10gislv$sv5d$1@dont-email.me> <10gjk9c$158ec$1@dont-email.me> <10gjtk2$18glc$1@dont-email.me> <10gjueh$1934g$3@dont-email.me> <10gl2g2$1nroi$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6f5w6hFelQn/GfkbXgHMkwQWceW7j0WqA/YOERyHvVb+BTVFh9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vIgstyCVY7YDsOgEfScIS12nzsc= sha256:pgmSZ4dNi/UDf2WSNdGSg77O9AlU0mXDCrchvGJeJCE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78181 alt.comp.os.windows-11:27822 On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 21:48:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 01/12/2025 21:25, rbowman wrote: >> I think it is in one of Ernest Gann's books where he talks about the >> transport pilots in WWII. Without GPS all the fjords look about the >> same and if you picked the wrong one you were royally screwed. >> > Yes. Fate is the Hunter. > >> The US sort of annexed Greenland during WWII when Denmark was occupied. >> Apparently the Greenlanders preferred that option to Canada or the UK. >> The cryolite mine was a point of interest at that time but that's been >> shut down. > > Nothing was annexed. The US leased the land for bases first, then radar > stations. Okay, a protectorate. https://adst.org/2017/07/protecting-greenland-american-consulate- godthab-1940-42/ It was protected against the Brits, Canadians, and Norwegians. Probably a good deal for Greenland. Britain was planning to invade Norway but Germany got there first. Sweden was one of the few countries that managed to pull off neutrality in that mess, although their neutrality had a German accent. Switzerland did their usual thing and shot at both sides and occasionally were bombed by both sides. That might have been case of 'Where the hell is Switzerland? Oops. So sorry.'