The “war” ratcheted up some years later. In a National Post article in 2022, Rob Huebert, an associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary, wrote: “In 2002, the exchange of booze and flags that had characterized the dispute was completely upended when the Danes used an ice-capable frigate, HDMS Vaedderen, to land troops on the island. Despite Canadian pleas not to repeat these escalatory actions, they did it again in 2003 with her sister ship, the Triton.”