US President Donald Trump has written to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a letter that was subsequently circulated among European diplomatic missions in Washington, according to PBS News.
The letter, which staff within the United States National Security Council reportedly forwarded to several European ambassadors, sets out the president’s views on global security, NATO and the strategic importance of Greenland.
In the message addressed to the Norwegian prime minister, Trump linked the Nobel Committee’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize with a shift in how he approaches international obligations.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” the letter states.
The president went on to argue that Denmark lacks the ability to defend Greenland from external powers and questioned the basis of Danish sovereignty over the territory.
“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway?” he wrote. “There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.”
The letter also refers to NATO, with Trump asserting that the alliance should take steps in support of US interests.
“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States,” he wrote.
The message concludes with the statement: “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
PBS News reported that the letter was shared internally among diplomatic officials after being circulated by the National Security Council. Neither the White House nor the Norwegian government has publicly commented on the correspondence.












Our nuclear deterrent should be independent from the US, France does this and so should we.
Amen brother.
Independent and layered.
It is apart from maintenance. This august journal has covered the point.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-britains-nuclear-weapons/
I’m beginning to think Trump Is a “Tall White” after all.
👀👀👀
It’s life Jim but not as we know it.
Ahhh, A Vulcan then !!!!
(You might need to ask Spock as he Isn’t talking to me 😁)
(visions of a Sulky Vulcan now)
I didn’t realise Tribbles grew so big…
Mmmm Greenland came under the Denmark- Norway crown in the 1380s,Denmark took full control in 1712!were were all these American’ boats?
The vikings explored N America in the late 10th century,soooo trumpy should wind his neck in claiming what boats went where and when! That means Norway could actually claim N America as theirs couldn’t they🤔
It’s been pointed out MULTIPLE times if there was a real security threat Denmark had no problem with US bases on Greenland under NATO treaties!
I blame American School History Lessons (Hollywood) for their severe lack of knowledge.
Ah, you are missing how this actually works.
Hollywood will create a movie which shows that ‘merica founded Greenland at the time of dinosaurs.
Greenland will be rediscovered as the new Jurassic Park pre-pre-pre-prequel in which the Tangerine Tinted Stable Genius will star.
This then becomes a constitutional fact, as it has been researched and put on screen by Hollywood, as part of MAGA doctrine.
There FIFY.
😅😅😅.
I have been to the US a fedw times for holidays and a couple on business and found their insularity and ignorance of the outside world amazing ( Oh dear like now like our our own young who are not intersted ) I was asked by an educated opera singer that my accent was so nice and where did I come from – I replied Manchester England – She replied Oh such a pretty town (Manchester in 1979 was anything but) It transpired she thought it was Manchester N H in New England I haven’t looked it up recently but the % of American’s with passports is very low
In defence of America’s low passport uptake:
1) A disproportionate share of Americans live in quite extreme poverty and taking long-haul flights to other continents is a pipe dream
2) America has natural beauty beyond compare in my opinion, and more variety than pretty well any country on Earth; from Alaska to New Mexico, the Rockies to the bayou. Not that many Americans at all make use of these stunning places, but in theory they wouldn’t need a passport to get the kind of experience in nature we would have to travel half the world for
I’m being too charitable I know, but still it’s not quite apples to apples
60% of transatlantic travel between the EU and the US are Americans. That doesn’t even account for the fact that there are 450m Europeans vs 340m Americans.
Europe is full of people who believe bar talk and conspiracy theories.
You might want to think about distribution
There is nothing to think about, it is a cold hard fact.
“Today, two-thirds of the long-haul international seats to and from the United States are on foreign flag carriers, even though 60 percent of the passengers are U.S. citizens,” he said. “We have a huge trade deficit in … long haul, international travel.”
…“The biggest reason is, by and large, international airlines are quasi-arms of the state,” he said. “They have various forms of state subsidies that allow them to fly a lot more seats, and … in most cases, they don’t have to do it profitably.”
Again, distribution. Absolute number of passports issued versus frequent flyers. Think about it a bit harder
It wouldn’t matter if the US did found Greenland, because:
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And they haven’t come much more destructive than the likes of the current US President in a long time.
I think it’s time we pointed out that the UK founded America and therefore we should abolish the Presidency and return it to crown rule.
Yup. They’d be so much happier as the 11th province of Canada.
FYI a lot of Americans believe that Dinosaurs where on Noah’s Ark.
Apparently we’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for the good old US of A.
Ha, We just might still be.
Hiel Trumpler !
Wasp…..Yes, America helped us out massively in the early years of WW2 – didn’t they join the war in 1939 in support of free Europe, send thousands of US fighter aircraft to fly alongside the RAF in the Battle of Britain, thus staving off a German invasion…or have I got it wrong?
And don’t forget that Nelson would never have won the battle of Waterloo in 1815 without the help of the US Marine Corps.
And of course, generously asked for nothing in return! Remarkable how they shared technology with their allies, as well…
No that was a Hollywood film
France, Germany, and Italy would look like Ukraine and Belarus had the US not decided to invade Western Europe.
The US did not join the war out of kindness to their friends they joined as Japan and Germany declared war on them…. Plus those big Nukes the us has were a gift from the UK and we were then subsequently locked out of the research once we had helped the US create them. That is hardly friendly behaviour is it?
It’s got nothing to do with US security, but has everything to do with what’s under the earth in Greenland. They are vying for the minerals rights, using a supposed lack of security as a means to get those rights!
Agree. Follow the money and it will usually lead you to the answer.
Db , trump may want golden dome bases in Greenland but likely the locals would have consented anyway. What people are saying today is he just wants to known as the president who added territory to ‘great’ America
Denmark and Greenland have been trying to get companies in to mine the minerals,at the moment it is under a bloody great ice sheet and because of the cost nobody will go anywhere near it!it will take decades for for the ice to melt enough to do any mining!
I think it’s also legacy. Trump wanted his name in the history books but didn’t get a Nobel prize. Renaming Nuuk to Trump City will at least get him into the geography books.
There are zero questions to be raised, asked whatsoever. European countries are just afraid of the reply as they did put security of their citizens at risk by being vassal to the us. The only reply is to build european capacities and adopt a kind of gaullist policy for Europe. The only thing de Gaulle did not predict, is the grotesque manner the US are splitting away from Europe.
I don’t think anyone was expecting trump to get a second term to be honest. We made the mistake of thinking right and reason would prevail, but the world seems to have moved beyond that.
To be honest I’m looking at the geostrategic hole the UK is in.. stuck between Europe and the U.S. and thinking that the French had the right idea.. I’m not liking the fact our nuclear deterrent is essentially dependent for its ongoing maintenance on the U.S.
The uk deterrent was meant to survive several presidential terms, we should have enough serviceable missiles even if yanks refuse to service them for us to see out 2 terms but if maga remain in power that’s looking dodgy.
Yep we have a decade essentially that would give use just enough time.. but I think maybe the time is now to at least start setting the ground work… and if by chance we get another democratic president we need to take that opportunity to make sure we get sovereign control of our tridents entire life cycle.. I don’t have a problem with continuing to work with the US on nuclear weapons but it needs to be completely sovereign controlled across the whole life cycle or we walk.
The time is now to start developing our own SLBM for our own submarines. The time was actually at the start of Trump’s first term, but we were silly enough to call him an “anomaly”.
Working with France would be sensible, but working with the US would be foolish. They have no incentive to help us and could provide us with little that would be worth the cost if they did.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination
De Gaulle
I see he’s still committed to proving that “Trump derangement syndrome” is real. Except it isn’t just Trump. We’re firmly into the age of the dictator now, lunatics running the asylum.
This clown has next to zero support in the congress for this Greenland thing. If William Spaniel is to be believed the military is in the same boat.
This will amount to a big fat nothing and people are getting overdramatic for no reason, just like last time Greenland came up in the news
It was proven around Venezuela that congress has no meaningful control of a president wishing to push the boundaries of executive power… essentially he can attack any nation he wishes up to and including beheading and regime change, the only thing he cannot do is a traditional land invasion with the army and full conquest and annexation.
Chiefly I see this about Trump pursuing a legacy, being the first American president to expand American territory in eons. I think he wants to enter the history books alongside Thomas Jefferson in that regard.
I see no other explanation – Greenland is under no threat at all from Russia and China whilst in NATO and would be no safer if incorporated into America – ultimately the same people would come to its defence.
This reminds me of the time the US warned the world Russia is going to invade Ukraine.
Europeans laughed and mocked the US. Then it happened, and the head of the German BND was caught so off guard, he was on the ground in Kiev when his flight cancelled.
The arctic is melting, the northwest passage is going to be open in the next 20 years. The Danes don’t have a single permanent military base in Greenland. Some warehouse box in Nuuk isnt going to cut it.
If the ice ever melts, the middle of Greenland will be a giant lake with a ring of mountains around it. A wet Mordor really.
You of course understand why this makes no sense. Were that to happen, Greenland would be defended from Russia or China by NATO inclusive of the US. It makes no difference at all to America’s strategic position
Side note but you’ll also recall that a) Europe is not a monolith, b) the UK supported the US’ assertion re Ukraine
This is exactly it. Trump’s “strategy” is to essentially retreat to the Americas and ignore the rest of the world (basically leave it to China). His plan is to acquire everything west of Iceland by hook or by crook, and he doesn’t care who he angers in the process.
In his mind, the history books will speak of him as the president that cemented an American superstate. In reality, I think he’s more likely to fracture the existing states and create civil war.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he used his pseudo militia brown shirts to do the job!
I wonder how long the US establishment can let this loon continue; he’s lost his marbles on top of his personal ‘qualities.’
The man is like a spoilt 12 year old, not sure why there hasn’t been a thought process of is he fit to run the country or not, if I was American I’d be looking to get him checked because personally I don’t think he’s capable.
His (Trumps) previous references to ‘only defending what you own’ tell you a lot about his views on NATO.
If you believed in NATO, of the week before last, you would recognise that Greenland is secure. If not, what he says has a ring of truth, Denmark and the rest of NATO (excluding the US) would struggle to defend Greenland from any real threat from ‘over the Pole’. I suggest that there is no threat right now, at least nothing that compared to 40 years ago (when the US had a substantial number of resident personnel). In 100 years, if the ice has gone things might be different.
Entertaining times, the optimistic view might be that saner heads will prevail, even if we have to wait until 2028, 2032….
Is he really saying that with the huge number of F35s delivered to NATO it could do nothing against a Russia that can’t run a land war and has an ancient navy?
That is before we get to the 100s of Typhoon and Gripen that are around.
There are four decent aircraft carriers in eNATO…..loads of P8…..
Russia wouldn’t stand a chance of mass landing with aerial superiority denied.
Five aircraft carriers… even if the Italians only use them one at a time for aircraft carriers in some ways the Trieste is better that Cavour as it’s got far better sensors.. infact it’s probably got one of the best in commission sensor setups on the planet.. your not getting anything past Trieste
Queen Elizabeth
Prince of Wales
Charles de Gaul
Cavour
Trieste
Juan Carlos I
six.
Supportive used the prefix decent.. Juan Carlos as is is a limited harrier carrier so does not get the “decent” prefix 😂.. if Spain decided to splash some cash could be decent.
I am sure NATO would be more than a match right now in a fight against Russia in Greenland, even without the US. If there is a will.
Currently there is no threat, at least not from Russia. Given the current state of the RN surface and submarine fleets the UK capability might be questioned. In 100 years if the ice has gone the threat scenario might be different.
During the last big event in Europe Denmark gave Greenland to the US for the duration, but not in perpetuity.
In the meantime some one may have forgotten that US acknowledged Greenland as Danish territory in exchange for Danish Caribbean interests, perhaps better advisors required.
Starting to think the guy has lost the plot, the Norwegian government does not issue the Nobel Peace Prize.
Good luck to him launching an invasion in the Arctic with no friendly bases near by. This sounds like a way to get a bunch of US service personnel killed over nothing and America slapped so hard with financial sanctions that the dollar dominance ends over night.
Jim The US doesn’t need friendly local bases to invade Greenland because unlike us they have a large Navy with dozens of huge Amphibious ships and the necessary fleet train to support them.
What he doesn’t have is the necessary Political support, the polling on this issue are horrendous on both sides of the political spectrum and they all know it.
No nation can base any policies on America. Trade, defence – both depend on the whims of a president who is, at best, delusional but anyway acting against the interests of the UK and Europe. I class the current America as worse than China and on a par with Russia. It’s a matter of damage limitation and self presivation – why our government is prevaricating on defence spending now totally unacceptable. America is directly threatening the UK with tariffs unless we support a morally repugnant and illegal action against a NATO ally. I’m gaining more respect for Macron on a daily basis – he seems to be the main person standing up for Europe (including the UK). America seriously needs to get their house in order before it loses all of it’s friends and has to stand alone against it’s real enemies.
Careful with your growing fondness for Macron. He is all bark and no bite, and most French people would support my characterisation of him there
Internally within France yes, but his foreign diplomacy skills are actually quite good. He should’ve never been president but maybe a role within Nato, EU or a foreign diplomacy body would have suited him better
As a distinguished politician perhaps the Gaza peace board would suit?
Doubt he has a billion laying around lol
We are now in a holding action until the US mid term elections in November this year, unless there are any other significant events that temper Trump’s actions. If the US mid terms do not alter the state of affairs then the world order as we know it has truly been shattered. US polling shows overwhelming discontent with the current administration however US polls have been known to be wildly inaccurate in recent years. On top of this, all the discussions about Trump cancelling the election are becoming more credible by the day.
Regardless of the outcome, things have changed forever. We live in interesting times, or so the ancient Chinese proverb goes.
Trump reminds me of Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
Oh that’s just not fair to Joffrey
Fair enough, Joffrey was just a little mischievous that’s all.
It is getting to the point where NATO starts to think about removing itself from US control. Putin’s intention was to break up NATO and it seems to be working. Europe and Canada needs to stand together. And of course if the US takes over Greenland and removes itself from NATO it loses bases, shared costs and has to manage the North Atlantic entirely on its own. It isn’t even as if Russia and or China was intent on invading Greenland anyway. We need to start thinking the unthinkable.
Maybe we got Sweden and Finland in exchange for the US. A bit different, but I can live with that.
Possibly even better, but we do need to build a capable resupply baseload. We may be able to avoid getting dragged into US adventures in future. Leave them to it. NATO is still North Atlantic without the US. It isn’t as if we need multi million boots on ground nowadays. Let European manufacturers get more business. I wonder how much we could sell the QEs for?
Sell the QEs??? Why on earth would we do that?
What we need to do is rejoin the EU. The EU needs to realise that it’s going to need to act as a superpower, or it will become irrelevant in the face of a world order dominated by America and China. That means a proper military (primarily Navy) capable of projecting European interests.
Tongue in cheek comment, but if we focus our attention on our continental neighbours the QEs are not really helpful. In a scenario such as European conflict tying up resources in these two significant assets which are really only of use in an expeditionary context against a relatively small enemy is dubious. Especially as a significant proportion of the Navy is tied up with supporting and protecting them. Can two huge capital ships control all the sea lanes, and supply liknes around the wider world? But as I started it was a tongue in cheek comment, when in reality we need to go back to the numbers of people and equipment we last had in the 69s to 80s, and not least the resupply capabilities of ammunition and spares. And then we need to add on enhancing medical support, The NHS cannot cope with peacetime demand let alone a wide scale hot conflict, that will inevitably also impact civilian life.
I see where you’re coming from, and I understand that it was tongue in cheek. However, I do think there’s a wider picture here. Russia is pretty much a known quantity – a large opponent, and now battle-hardened, but still not a match for Europe’s ground forces. However, in a multipolar world where Europe tries to position itself as a superpower, naval force projection will be vital, and that is one of the only things we have to offer.
While obviously our carriers cannot patrol the whole world’s sea lanes like the RN used to, there is a smaller number of vital areas that Europe will need to control. To me, these seem to be:
1. The Suez canal – obviously we don’t need a repeat of the Suez crisis, but Europe should take over America’s presence there.
2. The GIUK gap.
3. The seas around Western Africa (which IMO Europe should invest in as trading partners).
Absolutely, and extricating ourselves from the EU hasn’t helped regain that relationship! About the only thing we can all agree on is that we need to pay more for our defence. And the GIUK gap still needs defending regardless of Greenland’s ‘ownership’. This exposes Trump’s lack of strategic nous as he is cutting off the East Atlantic defence contribution meaning he will have to commit more to the area than before!
The uk deterrent was meant to survive several presidential terms, we should have enough serviceable missiles even if yanks refuse to service them for us to see out 2 terms but if maga remain in power that’s looking dodgy.
Wow, Obama got one after just 10 days in office and no accomplishments! I wonder why was that hmmmm?
Mostly because the guy he replaced was a massive war monger who set the Middle East on fire.
And it was a slow year for peace 😀
I think there’s a decent enough argument around such a historic moment for civil rights and reconciliation between ethnic groups that it warranted recognition given there weren’t many other candidates
Agree that was weird even though Obama was a good guy
Great to see Redshift, Clunker and NoPoet are all still here, I had a worry they had all disappeared 🤔😁
Should be some great friendly banter here now.
Shame they all no longer respond !
😅😅😅😎
The assertion that Denmark cannot maintain a credible defence of Greenland versus Russia or China is particularly asinine… that’s the whole bloody point of NATO! I think Don is losing his mind a bit, he has bloodlust and a critical oversupply of confidence post-Venezuela
I Look at all of this and think, is this Trumps way of telling the NATO members that the USA is sick of carrying the weight, numerous members have not been meeting the requirements so here we are…..
And yet the members still went to war when the US declared A5😉
And we Europeans buy a shed load of top US military gear. Probably wisely rethinking all that after Donalds recent rantings. The guy belongs in a padded cell or secure retirement home, not in charge of converting the USA into another represive, imperial, failing superstate. Talk about pooping on your own doorstep!
European leaders keep making the same mistake over and over again with Trump, hoping in a change of direction and avoiding to accept what for most Europeans is already clear: the old order is over, Trump couldn’t care less about NATO and Europeans, he wants as much as he can get and if Putin and Xi don’t bother him then he won’t bother them. He would have probably moved much faster if it was not for his hope of getting the Nobel Prize, and if he was not worried on impact on stock markets.
In that context, better Europe accepts the idea it has to stand-up and fend for itself or it’ll be eaten alive, weakened more and more at every bite. Post-Brexit Britain will have to decide to either get closer to the EU or become a US satellite, too small to stand on its own in a world of giants. And if the EU collapses under Trump, Putin and internal nationalist parties, then the all Europe will become a land of colonies for the first time in a couple of thousand years.
The biggest mistake in American foreign policy history was getting involved in WW1 and supporting the British and French empires against the German Empire. The totally incompetent and racist Woodrow Wilson violated over 125 years of American wisdom by rejecting the foreign policy of George Washington who warned against entanglements on the European continent. This was mischaracterized as “isolationism” by ignorant Europeans who couldn’t tell the difference between being involved in the world and not getting entangled in foreign engagements that didn’t affect US strategic interests. And there was no strategic value to the US getting involved in the squabbles of continental Europeans. It resulted in over 100 years of unnecessary involvement in Europe’s affairs, the expenditure of trillions of dollars and, mor importantly, the shedding of gallon after gallon of American blood.
If the Europeans can’t stop Putin even though they hold massive superiority in treasure and manpower then it is their fault, not the US’s. Good riddance.
You do know the us got involved in ww1 because of germany s action at sea and Mexico and in ww2 because Hitler litteraly declared war on the us? Are you suggesting the us should not have defended themselves?
Wilson did not have to declare war. He mishandled the entire situation with Germany. He just was incompetent. If the US had not gotten involved in WW1, 1939 would have turned out different and Hitler might not have been able to rise to power. You can legitimately argue about WW1 but you undermine yourself as soon as you bring in Hitler and WW2.
I’m the last person to defend Hitler but, for all practical purposes, the US was at war with Germany in December 1941. Most people ignore the fact that FDR didn’t ask for a declaration of war against Germany after Pearl Harbor for one very important reason, Congress wouldn’t have given it to him. FDR hated the Germans from his days when as a boy his father dragged him off to Germany. FDR even spent a few weeks in a German school.
I highly recommend “The New Dealers War” by Thomas Fleming, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a lifelong New Dealer.
Funnily enough though, the war in Vietnam, which ostensibly was in American strategic interest, you lost. Not hearing too much about that are we ?
Typical stupid ignorant comment by a Brit who thinks he is clever but doesn’t have the foggiest idea what he is talking about. Vietnam was not in the US’s strategic interest, and it was pushed by two incompetent Democrat presidents – JFK and Lyndon Johnson.
Ha ha !! You never need to scratch too hard to see just how fragile and insecure MAGA is. As well as monumentally ignorant about history, geography, science and facts.
Stay on your knees for your rapist, paedophile leader.
Dementia is usually sad to witness,
but terrifying when it’s sat behind the Resolute Desk.
Yes indeed, that is far the most plausible explanation for his Greenland episode. He is a most egocentric fellow, who craves attention, adulation and fame. Adding 20% to the USA’s land mass would write him into the US history books and assure a permanent legacy.
If he was really concerned about about some.future military threat to Greenland, he would be happy to see European troops and aircraft arriving there. Instead, he is having a tantrum with us, which is a distinctly odd reaction. Except that Europe has just thwarted his big land-grab plan.
Then there is the natural resources story. Greenland apparently has the world”s 13th largest untapped oil resource in the Greenland Basin, which would be very expensive to extract.There are rare earth minerals too, with one smallish site where work is halted because of the toxic waste emussions. Trump’s big oil and mining pals would no doubt like to get free rein there, but neither Denmark nor Greenland want another Prudhoe Bay ecological issue on their hands. The cosmetics billionaire scion, Lauder, is reportedly.one such pushing for the US to get in there. But they would need a Trump-type regime that didn’t worry too much about emissions and environmental damage.
I would think that is probably a factor in the equation, but not the main driver.
Could Denmark just sell It to Mauritius ?
(when I say “sell”, It’s what the rest of the world does rather than the UK Gifting it with £35,000,000,000)
Just a thought. 🤔
What is frightening is what comes next, After Trump are we going to get President Trump Jr or a President Vance, as the Democrats seem to have nothing in the pipe line to replace Maga. If Nato out lasts Trump, which at the moment looks doubtful, it will defiantly not last anouther anti Nato president, Trump has in just 1 year of his presidency destroyed what took 80 years to build, Trust. There is none in American foriegn policy none in the $ and none in the willingness of America ability to come to the aide of its once loyal allies.
The UK and Europe have to relearn (again) the ability to deafened them selves this time from Rabid dogs attacking from the East as well as from the West.
Agree, 4 years of Trump followed by 8 years of Vance is a clear possibility and if that happens, by the end of it the world will be much more fragmented and dangerous, one where Europe (i.e. inc UK) risks being on the receiving end of expansionist policies from external powers. Definitely a situation we are not used to after centuries of expansion and decades of illusion of still being relevant. Trump has been a very cold shower. As you point out, we have to “relearn” how to be powerful and respected, which we can only do united given the size of our opponents.
No matter what happens in the next election in the US, assuming there is one as Emperor’s usually appoint a successor, no country in the entire world should trust the former colony of America again no matter what lies and promises we get.
1. Norway isn’t Denmark
2. Norway doesn’t own Greenland
3. Norway doesn’t decide who gets the Nobel prize
4. Norway neither owns Denmark.
5. Trump hasn’t ended any wars.
6. The only threat to Greenland is Trump.
7. The only country to request help from NATO is the US.
8. There is no Russian or Chinese threat to Greenland
9. Russia already borders the US ( see Alaska ).
10. If Russia/China are such a threat to the US, why does Trump always act in their interests and support?
11. Just how bad are the redacted Epstein files??
Greenland has had a representational office within the Danish Embassy in Beijing since 2023.
‘Economic independence is the precondition to political independence: Greenland has to develop a self-sufficient economy first. Given Greenland’s economic structure, the mining industry would be the most promising to achieve economic independence, with fishing and tourism as two other pillars. China, a deep-pocketed investor with a huge consumer market, could play a key role in the development of Greenland’s three industries, particularly considering that other major economies’ growth more or less came to a halt in recent years. Cooperation with China could bring in enormous income for Greenland and substantial benefits to its residents and communities and could propel the process of its economic independence. The potential economic opportunities in Greenland are undeniably enormous and attractive to China’
Greenland sees Chinese investment as key to its independence. Chinese investment elsewhere has had political strings attached.
That is quite clearly not in the interests of the U.S.
One of the key industries in which Greenland seeks Chinese investment is fisheries. That is a threat to both North American and European fisheries. It will wipe out wild salmon populations in this country and, in all probability, fish and chips as well.
Where is this quote from ? This is the most plausible reason for US upset over Greenland I’ve heard. Imagine Chinese mines and a ice free artic with the Lianong escorting convoys to a greater Manchuria .
Imagine no fish and chips! The expansion of the Chinese fishing fleet since 1980 coincides with the decline of Atlantic salmon runs in this country. That fishing fleet has also recently conducted manoeuvres coordinated by the CCP to block critical shipping lanes. But no doubt all just a ‘coincidence’.
Polarresearch.net
‘China’s engagement in Greenland: mutual economic benefits and political non-interference’
Trump needs to fill the 24hr news cycle, and this is the latest thing. His ego needs to be stroked and the more this happens the more outrageous his ideas become. He needs it to be about him, and only him. Sadly the people who have his attention are mainly the authors and supporters of ‘project 2025’ (read it yourselves).
Just like Europeans and the British, your average American are becoming tired of this crap too. However, just like most everywhere else, what they most care about is paying the bills, healthcare, rent, kids etc. Why should they care if 80 years of relative stability is coming to an end. The bill for the X-ray just dropped in the mail $450, with insurance. Looks like I’m gonna need a new hip replacement, that’s $2500 before the insurance kicks in. They tell us Europe needs to start paying their fair share to defend itself, the British too! Why are my taxes being spent on their defense! There’s gotta be a better way than this. Maybe give this clown a 2nd chance. AND that is how we arrived at this point. People’s frustrations mean elections have unforeseen consequences.
The US will NOT invade Greenland, they might try to buy it through.
And just so you know….. Ex RN. LS(EW) member of the 21club
the simple fact is greenland left the EU in 1985, and will leave nato when it splits from denmark, it’s also true that china has it’s eyes on greenland, they did true to get them involved in their belt and road initiative
it’s essential greenland stays within the western sphere of influence, trumps offer is the best one we have on the table, the european’s, and liberal turtle neck’s, need to put their big boy trousers on !
Ah, the MAGA playbook. Make up anything you like to support your evil & then demonise anybody who dares to say otherwise. You should learn that “no” means “no”. Try to invade & congress will impeach your feeble-minded idiot president. Greenlanders will never forgive you. Europe will never forgive you. Evwery US allyn will nwevwer trust you again. If you’re really worried about Russian attacks, help rather than hinder Ukraine to defeat Putins cannon fodder there rather than crawling up to him. What the Donald is doing is Russia & China’s dirty job for them.
What plàybook is that, and, what have I ‘made up’ ?
Do you understand now ?