- Sun Jan 18, 2026 11:38 am
#103911
The problem seems to be Trump's dogmatic insistence that USA ownership of Greenland is essential for the security of the USA. Not the existing treaty that the USA has with Denmark/Greenland that permits the USA to station as many military personnel and/or defensive weaponry there as it likes, any time it likes, but ownership.
It is clearly absolute bollocks. American ownership of the territory is very obviously quite unnecessary for the USA to be able to address or realise whatever security concerns it may have.
Nobody seems to have challenged Trump to explain the reasoning behind his insistence that only ownership will do.
A view is that Trump has an eye on Greenland's reserves of oil and/or rare earth minerals - as he patently has in relation to Ukraine, Venezuela, and even Gaza.
But is the reason that Trump has not been challenged to explain the reasoning behind his insistence on ownership for national security reasons that there is no reasoning beyond that of avarice?
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.