- ”Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal. A lot of things can be done. It’s hurting Denmark very badly because they’re losing almost $700 million a year carrying it.” Taking over Greenland was for Trump a pure real estate deal in 2019.
- ”US ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” was bat in the presidential election campaign and the following year: ”The United States will take control of Greenland one way or the other.”
A grandiose self-image makes Trump want to expand territory to fit into the history books – as when President Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana and Andrew Johnson bought Alaska. Does he want Greenland’s rare earth metals, as in the deal with Ukraine? Is mining profitable? If so, only when Trump is dead and buried. The same can be said of the Golden Dome, an electronic dome intended to protect North America from ballistic missiles. Pentagon strategists have a more plausible explanation: the pack ice along Greenland’s east coast.
Elephants in the china shop
“Their defense is two dog teams ,” Trump taunted in 2026 about the Danish Sirius soldiers patrolling northeastern Greenland. The Nordic countries, Britain and Germany sent military as a stumbling block to the “capital” Nuuk. Trump punishes these countries with a 10% tariff in March and another 15% in June. Illegal, says the Supreme Court. Even if Trump’s alleged threat from the Russians and Chinese is not urgent, Congress will likely give the OK afterwards.
NATO risks turning into a lame duck. Russian submarines will be able to more easily reach the Atlantic and stop ships carrying troops and equipment from the US to Europe, like Hitler’s U-wolf packs at the beginning of World War II. Even worse: to launch missiles that, with close-range shots, not only destroy Western Europe but also the very life of the US.
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Why?
Trump is more cunning than that with geopolitical motives. Greenland’s abundance of rare earth metals, but luckily for him to make mining profitable, Trump is long dead and buried. The same can be said of the Golden Dome vision, an electronic dome as protection against missiles over North America.
But what is truly urgent for Trump’s military strategists is the pack ice belt along the east coast of Greenland. Where Putin’s missile submarines can lie in wait unnoticed, not least for their second-strike capability. Or sneak out into the Atlantic to fire on America’s weak life. Supported by attack submarines that, under the protection of the ice, also stop deliveries of troops and equipment to Europe, like Hitler’s U-wolf packs.
There is an arms race taking place under the water surface. Modern submarines are extremely quiet. Although the American ones are believed to have slightly better stealth capabilities than the Russian ones in open water. The countermeasure is more effective reconnaissance with satellites, and fixed and floating sensors. Radar stations are on land and now naval drones are also used. A lesson from Ukraine, which, without its own ships, decimated an x of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, even a submarine in Novosibirsk.