The excuse seems to be, “Greenland is vital to US security interests.”
Didn’t the US already try that with Project Iceworm and Camp Century back in the 1950s and 1960s? It was abandoned when it was found that it was unsuitable as a missile launching facility because the ice moved. If it didn’t work then, why would it work now?
There’s some talk about natural resources, but with only a few exceptions, you’ve first got to get through all that ice before you can get to any land from which resources can be extracted.
Personally, I halfway believe the billionaire techbro sociopaths like Thiel and Musk see Greenland as a future refuge when global warming melts its ice and makes everywhere else unlivable, so they’re urging Trump to stake an American claim to the territory now.
I posted before that Greenland should start conscription to show the bully they are serious.
I just thought of another good-to-me idea. Denmark should threaten to take back the formerly Danish U.S. Virgin Islands.
Of course the Danes won’t do it. I doubt the Danes sufficiently understand the cowardly bully mindset.
The Greenlanders would hate this, but I’d also love to see Denmark offer to start negotiations to trade Greenland for the former Danish West Indies. Denmark hopefully could drag out the negotiations until the next presidential administration comes in.
“Yes. So we need to find a way to slow-walk this to let people around him come to their senses.”
“But they’re in the tank for him too!”
“It’s our best shot. So tell him we need to do a full intel assessment of the target, take a few months to map all that ice sheet. Then hopefully, when he tells us to go ahead, we can show him down some more by telling him we need a full logistics plan. Maybe we can put it off until the Truman needs to go in for a refit, which we could maybe play for a further delay. Anything to keep the idiot-in-chief from invading the territory of a NATO ally. So get to it, and go slow.”
SunUp got it in one. No hell-or-high-water blitzkrieg will be ordered. But the vague threat of same will be frequently invoked to tweak non-MAGA noses.
Come January 21, 2029 … Greenland’s geopolitical situation will be the same as it was January 19, 2025.
Slave labor? Declare the entire population to be non citizens without rights.
Although in practice I expect most of the takeover would consist of flattening and burning all the various settlements, so there won’t be all that many people to resist left.
Man, I wish I could read the classified reports on the responses of Greenlanders asked about their support for “U.S. objectives for the island”. They are likely to be hilarious.
I guess I’ll just have to wait until the Administration accidentally leaks the classified data on an insecure messaging app or otherwise mishandles it into the public domain.
Nnnah, let’s not endorse literally intimidating or threatening people for having unpopular political views.
If any Greenlander is naive enough to think “Yeah we’d be better off as part of Trump’s USA, let’s support this”, I don’t want them menaced. Mocked, sure. Menaced, no.
I think they should start a national contest to see how many people they can trick the US into recruiting as spies. Just make up some absolute bullshit, “I hear Joe the bartender is secretly involved in the Free Greenland Movement, but he’s in debt, so he might betray them!”, but have everyone agree to just confirm whatever bullshit an American agent asks them about. “Oh, sure, everyone knows Bob is looking into buying a nuclear weapon! He’s going to mount it on a weaponized elk.”