re: With 20 days to 2 months, Greenland will be ours!! It is 1.25 times bigger than Alaska!!

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Can you even imagine the fertile soils that will soon be exposed?

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All of this can be stopped by a Green movement in the USA, left wing judges and a Democratic administration.

Not taking a stand on this, just saying the big mistake people make in politics is thinking "I am so awesome my party will be in power for the next 30 years and my policies will live forever".

What it 99 percent of Greenland is declared a "no minining, no fishing, no hunting" zone by President Newsome in two years?

The benefits of pursuing such a position, even in Miller's stilted realpolitik terms, is very low. The issue is that this administration doesn’t seem to like or even want to use soft power. We would sacrifice a lot of political capital for not very much in the grand scheme of things.

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The way out would be for there to be a referendum in Greenland simply asking the people do you want to remain part of Denmark, become a US State like Alaska or become an Independent Country?

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Who “owned” the land where you reside? Did they vote to allow you to take possession of it? No?

I’m just curious how strongly that you feel about your convictions.

Does Ilisimatusarfik University go to the B1G or SEC?

I agree with NYPost commentator Rich Lowry about this -


The fact of the matter is, we can almost certainly get whatever we need from Greenland without violating a friendly country’s sovereignty, or straining a world-historical alliance to the breaking point.

We already have a missile-defense base there. The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement between Denmark and the United States that allows for the Pituffik Space Base could presumably be updated and extended.

Given the national-security importance of critical minerals to both the United States and NATO, it should be possible to unlock Greenland’s resources.

Instead of clapping back at Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen should be reaching out, asking to sit down for a steak dinner at Mar-a-lago and offering a deal. While public pressure gets Trump’s back up, private persuasion — and a warm relationship — goes a long way: The Panamanians managed to get him to stop talking about taking back the Canal (for now) with prudent concessions.

For his part, Trump should realize that making everyone in a friendly nation hate him doesn’t help his cause. His loose talk of annexing Canada last year helped Justin Trudeau’s party survive a national election that it should have lost.

His Greenland saber-rattling is presumably making it harder for leaders in Denmark to work with him on sensible economic and security cooperation.

If Nicholás Maduro got what he deserved, Demark is a different matter.

Even the unsentimental, results-oriented foreign policy of Donald Trump needs to distinguish between friend and foe.

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The downstream effects make such postions genuinely terrible. The issue with hard power is that one, it is far more resource intensive, and two, it limits your ability to adapt to changing circumstance.

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Agreed. Hard power is expensive and locks you into paths that are difficult to unwind when conditions change. Soft power works because it preserves optionality and lets you adapt without forcing constant escalation.

What makes this even worse is the way it’s being framed. Talking about it in real estate or transactional development terms scrambles the signal for allies and adversaries. Alliances operate on expectations and credibility.

When you recast strategic positioning as a property acquisition, it becomes harder for partners to interpret intent and stabilize around it. That confusion alone carries downstream costs, even if no action ever follows.

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Offer them US citizenship and to be an autonomous territory like Puerto Rico. We will send in our oil and mining companies to extract resources estimated in the trillions. 10% of revenue goes to the locals, divided equally. That’s 2,000 dollars per person for every billion dollars in revenue


I bet they’d take that deal

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The psychology behind this whole Greenland brouhaha has been fascinating to watch unfold, and it really shows who has bothered to research the subject at all.

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this is the equivalent of arguing which unicorn would win a race

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The black one.

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needs to distinguish between friend and foe.

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Wait, do you consider Europe to be a friend of the USA?

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Wait, do you consider Europe to be a friend of the USA?

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Oh this should be good.