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| Why Trump believes America can take Greenland and how president's plan will flip geopolitical order on its head |
| 2025-03-27 |
| [DM] The return of Donald Trump to the White House in January unsurprisingly heralded a raft of rapid policy changes. But the US President's fixation on subsuming Greenland - the world's largest island adrift in icy seas - has the potential to fundamentally reshape the landscape of global security and trade as we know it. Trump has refused to rule out using military or economic action to acquire the island, leading some analysts to warn that Washington could even attempt to annex the territory in a move shockingly similar to that of Russia wresting control of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, the US President made an alarming, if somewhat ambiguous, statement of intent. 'We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,' he said. 'If we don't have Greenland, we can't have good national security,' he concluded as his Vice President JD Vance geared up for a visit to a US military base at Pituffik in the island's north. The Vice President had planned to tour the island and attend a popular dog sled race tomorrow with his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance - but the event was cancelled after widespread anti-American protests from locals and claims the Vances' vacation-like engagements were concealing more sinister motives. Trump recently said his administration was working with 'people in Greenland' who 'want something to happen' with the US, claiming: 'They're calling us - we're not calling them.' But opinion polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States, and in recent weeks anti-American protesters have staged some of the largest demonstrations ever seen on the Arctic island. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has firmly opposed Trump's overtures since his return to office, praised Greenlanders' defiance of Washington amid the historic protests. 'The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great, but it is in times like these that you show what you are made of,' she wrote in an address to the island's inhabitants. 'You have stood up for who you are.' Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen later piled on, declaring his nation 'would not let the United States decide what the Danish realm, including Greenland, should look like in the future'. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 I appreciate the Daily Mail going to the trouble of laying it all out for us in such nice detail. But I wonder: Is GCHQ is trying to get back at Trump for not playing along in Ukraine? I can't help notice one of the tells for when the DM is trying to sell something: Person X has refused to rule out doing crazy stuff. Of course Trump has refused to rule out invading Greenland, since that would shut down the conversation. The story stays in the news only if it is about the impending destruction of the current World Order. The Greenland independence movement is just not sexy. Trump's super power is making deals, not playing armchair general. Although, it is interesting to imagine the New York real estate market with armies and warlords. A pity we don't have a Rantburg Futures Market for predictions. I would go all in on "Trump doesn't invade Greenland". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-03-27 20:40 |
| #4 Better do it quick. Don't use the Putin/Ukraine strategy. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-27 15:43 |
| #3 I didn't vote for this. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-03-27 12:09 |
| #2 We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go So since Putin looks to be getting away with invading another country, Trump is going to give it a shot? Assuming you're not stupid enough to actually use military force, a word of warning, Mr. President: The Obnoxious New Yorker Persona has a lot of drawbacks. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2025-03-27 11:49 |
| #1 Usha Vance is frozen out as Greenland takes savage step over 'underlying agenda' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-27 09:44 |