Essay by Eric Worrall
Activists seem keen for the USA to go back to subsidising Europe’s defence budget.
Trump calls climate change a ‘con job’ but it could drive his bid to seize Greenland
January 13, 2026 — 5.00am
David Crowe
Europe correspondent…
At a time when temperatures are soaring in Australia and bushfires are destroying homes and lives, the conditions in Greenland seem like the opposite extreme. The common factor, however, is the concern about the warming planet.
This is another worry for the people of Greenland when US President Donald Trump is making them nervous by talking about taking control of their territory.
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One young woman in Nuuk screws up her face when asked about Trump. “He treats us as objects, not as human beings,” she says.
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When the Americans worry about Russian and Chinese ships in these northern waters, the climate is part of their calculations. …
The US response, however, has been to leave its military operations in Greenland largely unchanged. …
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One Nuuk local, Julia Pars, a business consultant, tells me some people say they can’t sleep at night because they think about the US invading their territory. Pars shares the concerns, but she separates the anxiety about Trump from the security pact with America. …
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This is not an unusual response when I speak to people in Nuuk, and it is also the view of the major political leaders here. They seem to believe in the US alliance, and the unity of Western democracies, more than the US president. I do not hear objections to hosting more US forces in Greenland.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/trump-calls-climate-change-a-con-job-but-it-could-drive-his-bid-to-seize-greenland-20260112-p5nt8v.html
Let’s see if I’ve got this right. Greenlanders are terrified of climate change and the USA “taking over”, and presumably taking a slice of Greenland’s mineral wealth – but the USA sending lots of soldiers to Greenland for nothing in return would help alleviate their concerns?
I don’t blame the Europeans for trying. The Biden administration was wide open to European leaders mooching billions of US taxpayer dollars for Ukraine and any cause with the word “climate” in its name. Shaking the Russia rattle or the climate rattle has consistently worked on many previous US administrations.
Perhaps European influencers and leaders think if they shake the climate rattle and the Russia rattle at the same time, the Trump administration will cave and give them lots of free stuff.
Why would Climate Activists want the USA to subsidise Europe’s defence budget?
I don’t know David Crowe’s personal motivation, but back in 2023 George Soros complained the tension with Russia is distracting Europe from its climate crusade.
Europe’s climate crusade appears to include a substantial effort to interfere with US domestic politics.
If President Trump was to do what reporter David Crowe wants, and subsidise Europe’s defence of Greenland without any quid pro quo, US taxpayers would likely be indirectly funding Europe’s efforts to manipulate the United States into embracing radical left wing policy priorities, including renewable energy.
Meanwhile Europeans would leverage free US military support to exploit Greenland’s mineral rights, and keep all the profits, or at least keep a large slice for themselves as mineral royalties, if US mining companies did all the hard work. The Europeans would grow rich, and the USA would pay the bills.
Obviously it is up to the American people how US tax dollars are spent, but I can think of better uses for those US tax dollars than providing free military support to help Europeans get rich off Greenland’s mineral wealth.
As for Greenland, I find it fascinating that despite a public rejection of President Trump’s proposal, Greenlanders seem keen on a large US military presence, even if they feel there are unresolved concerns about climate change. This is like a girl you fancy saying “I don’t want you to be my boyfriend but I want you to move into my house to help me feel safe“. Perhaps there is scope for further negotiations about Greenland’s future.
This is another example of the left’s agenda being driven more by selective outrage than any benefit for people.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/video-why-has-the-global-left-swallowed-glue-about-the-iranian-revolution/
One would think the Global Left would be out in the streets demonstrating in favor of Freedom for the Iranian people, but they are nowhere to be found.
There are a lot of young people in Iran and I think they are tired of being oppressed by religious fanatics. But they are not getting any support from the Global Left at all.
What does the Global Left support?
The left supports nothing but opposes everything. They do not build, they destroy. When it appears that they are in support of something, look a little deeper and you will see it is just a convenience to channel their opposition to something else.
The Danish opposition to Trump seems to be preservationist Greens, who oppose any development not in a Communist country, and Eurotrash opposition to the US in general, again because the US is unlikely to
go Commie anytime soon.
European elites have all drunk from the wells of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Brown ad nauseam.
Radical feminist MIT professor fights a righteous battle against reality – Babbling Beaver
Abstract
One of the common themes in feminist research over the past decade has been the claim that reason is “gendered”: more specifically, that reason is “male” or “masculine.” Although feminists have differed in their interpretations of this claim and the grounds they offer for it, the general conclusion has been that feminist theory should steer clear of investments in reason and rationality, at least as traditionally conceived. For example, we should avoid an epistemology that privileges reason or the standpoint of reason; we should avoid theories of the self that take rationality to be a defining trait; and we should avoid endorsing moral and political ideals that glorify reason and the reasonable “person” – On Being Objective and Being Objectified (MIT)
MIT dives into erotic vomiting to reorganize hegemonic gender formations – Babbling Beaver
Nuff said.
I think many of those elites need to spend time working a hard, dirty job- in a factory, or construction, or farm, or cutting timber. It might help them grow up. Five years of that should do it. 🙂
They should also work on an oil and gas platform in the North Sea to learn how fossil fuels are obtain for fancy cars and for the fuel that keeps them from freezing to death in winter.
I hope you realize, and it is printed at the top o each page, the the Babbling Beaver is parody.
“Fake news you can trust from the transgressive nerds at MIT”
How do you write women so well?
Womens Suffrage is looking more and more like a truly awful idea.
When will we ever lear?
The US went so far right that Newsom is labelled a communist.
Technically, Governor Hair Gel is a fascist, with nominally private firms in a resolutely socialist system. Newsom might have to nationalize (stateize?) oil refining in the Peoples Republic, as his goal of deemphasizing fossil fuels is being met, to his regrets.
It wasn’t the conservatives that moved the goal posts.
According to the extreme left, anyone right of Newsom is a fascist, so maybe the shoe fits.
The US can swing far left and Newsom would still be a communist…
Newsome is basically a fascist/anti-society mouthy twit, who thinks he is a pretty boi !
The right has stayed where it was.. near the rational centre.
The left have taken their EV’s and trans and protests and have taken many, many steps to the far-left.. even electing a blatantly socialist/communist twit as NY mayor.
Yes, “the right” should be renamed “the rational“
and “the left”,
“the IRRATIONAL“.
Then even 9th-graders could easily figure out who’s who in the zoo, and where they’re coming from.
Whatever is right is right and whatever is not right is what’s left.
I can tell that is a joke, but I do not get it.
Perhaps the Europeans are simply jealous of America’s preeminence. They once ruled the world, after all.
The American Revolution upset the Old World apple carts of royalty, religion, and aristocracy, and the Americans have never been forgiven for the upset. In the preamble to the US constitution, there is a phrase: “…due ordain…”. In Old World Europe no royal could rule unless being ordained by the Church. The American government was granted their authority to rule by the people and not the Church.
And then money and corruption took over. Same age old way of the world and the demise of empires.
The US is in the denial phase..
The US is in the denial phase.
Perhaps or perhaps it has taken the first steps on the path to revival.
Time will tell.
It looks like revival to me. At least for the next three years.
US is actually at the “getting back to reality” stage.
Well, ordained by white men of wealth- mostly because they wanted to rule, instead of being second class compared to British royalty- George Washington’s main problem was that the British refused to grant him a military title within the British military, instead seeing him as just a militiaman. Of course many colonial leaders had high ideals but many were more into it for their personal gain. But I’ll agree that saying the government is ordained by the people is a huge advance allowing for further reform to make it real, or close to being real.
The British ruled then lost. The US ruled and is losing. Same arrogance, same trajectory. Empirial overstretch. It’s history. The US, like once the British are in denial snd lashing out, struggling in the quicksand, hanging on to the words of an ego maniac..
You should study the rise and fall of the Roman empire. There is insights to be found.
A reporter from Iran just said Trump is the most popular person in Iran.
I don’t know where he got his information, but that’s what he said.
I’ve heard they are naming streets after Trump in Iran.
Looks like they like Kings. 🙂
US is WINNING… starting to gain back some of the prestige and economy lost under the Otto Pen
Democrats are, of course, fighting tooth and nail against this.
Lots of stretch but no overstretch. America is not a tiny island off the coast of Europe, a mere peninsula of Asia. America has a great future.
Losing what? Please list what America has lost. A strong, growing economy. The world’s greatest military in a league of its own. Sure, there are problems- there will always be need for reform. It certainly seemed like America was in decline with Dementia Joe in the White House.
Seems like they mostly fought over ruling the world.
“…the US is unlikely to go Commie anytime soon.”
On the whole, you’re probably right, but the recent mayoral election in New York City doesn’t provide much salve.
Then you have Bernie, AOC, Prickster, Walz.. all rabidly far-left socialists.
The U.S. almost went authoritarian with Obama and Biden and their traitorous use of the power of the federal government to attack their political opponents.
If the Democrats had managed to win the last election, the United States would be well on the way to being a Democrat Dictatorship, where the Democrats control the voting and always win, like Putin or Maduro.
The voting in the last election managed to get Trump back in office, so we have a reprieve of a few years, but don’t think the Democrats have given up their goal of taking over the United States. Yes, that’s what I said. That is their ultimate goal. They want it all for themselves and like-minded fellow travelers and the Right will not be tolerated.
The Democrat Insurrection is starting in Minnesota, in their continuing efforts to take over the government. Trump may have to invoke the Insurrection Act before it’s all over.
Actually Maduro LOST the voting.. but like any leftist, ignored the election result and used brute force to maintain it.
Just like Democrats have over the last year or so.
They are also resorting to brute force, in the guise of organised ICE protests etc, to try to stop the elected mandate of the Trump administration.
I am not totally convinced the Democrats are behind the ICE protests although their rhetoric certainly incites them.
There are countries that want the downfall of the US and there are signs they have agents working to demoralize and divide US society.
We do not know who is behind the curtain, although DOJ is starting to look at a few things.
Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-front-how-socialist-cell-us-mobilized-pro-maduro-foot-soldiers-within-12-hours
Here’s part of the Insurrection Act, in case anyone is curious:
§252. Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
end
Is that what the Democrats want? I think they do. Then they could claim Trump is a Tyrant and a Dictator. Of course, some of them might be doing so from a jail cell.
Yes, that’s right Minnesota politicians, the laws apply to you, too. Break the law and go to jail.
One party autocracy.
Look at how well Pelosi controlled all the Dems in the House.
Regarding warming of the Arctic. Does anybody recall history, as I was taught history in grade school, https://www.britannica.com/place/Northwest-Passage-trade-route that from about 400 years ago, when the technology of sailing vessels was wooden ships powered by wind and they were sailing through the North West Passage up until it froze and then the Panama canal was built.
I think you need to reevaluate your education. Or at least read your link: However, the Northwest Passage was not finally conquered by sea until 1905, when the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen successfully navigated the treacherous middle section of the passage and emerged in the Beaufort Sea. Amundsen and his crew had set sail in 1903 in the converted 47-ton herring boat Gjøa. They completed the arduous three-year voyage in 1906, when they arrived in Nome, Alaska, after having wintered on the Yukon coast. The first single-season transit was achieved in 1944, when Sgt. Henry A. Larsen, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, made it through on a schooner.
“The first single-season transit was achieved in 1944, when Sgt. Henry A. Larsen, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, made it through on a schooner.”
The RCMPV St. Roch is on display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Then there was the guy a few years ago who set out to row to the North Pole. He set out from Svalbard, and made it several fractions of a mile before getting stuck.
Re the Northwest passage, 400 years ago, people were still a few centuries away from dying horribly while trying to get through.
See Franklin, Erebus, and Terror.
I’d say “wikipedia to check your NW Passage history” but I also remember a lot of things from early education that are no longer “true”. An important idea to remember is that the teachers were people too, and it seems almost as likely that they were saying unresearched stupid —- that I remember as that I’ve said unresearched stupid —- because I mis-remember them from 30 yeas later.
Any news associated with Australia that we get has to be treated with a huge pinch of salt.
By way of example, Australia has a full on prohibition war going on with vapes and cigarettes. Shops and premises are firebombed and people are shot in gang wars…
Firebombs no deterrent as Perth tobacco shops keep selling illicit cigarettes
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/firebombings-no-deterrent-as-perth-tobacco-shops-keep-selling-illicit-cigarettes-20260110-p5nt1n.html
The media here omits it – absolutely, completely. The UK wants the same policies here. Ask an average UK citizen on it and they won’t have the foggiest idea what you are talking about. At the same time Australia has the Southern hemispheric equivalent of empty suit Keir Starmer. So disinformation (and u-turns) will be pretty much de-rigeur.
The narrative seems to be “as the Arctic warms and melts away…” But it isn’t. The technologies have improved immensely making what was once considered impossible to exploit, into a profitable project.
The EU is a de facto fascist edifice. Ask Elon Musk and X…. And Nato is just as bad. Few know there is no means or mechanism for ejecting an errant member state from Nato. This is why Turkey could buy Russian missile systems and only be punished by exclusion from the F-35 programme. And in Ukraine, Turkey plays both sides just as it always has done.
Greenlanders aren’t fans of the Danes and left the European Economic Community (now EU) in the 1980s. But geopolitics isn’t mindful of what people want.
Maybe one day someone might have the bright idea of asking Greelanders what they want. But I’m not holding my breath.
I guess someone who does a nazi salute several times on stage would know. But wouldn’t that mean he loves the EU?
I guess a political entity like the unelected Commission (Politburo) driven EU that controls corporations completely is no different to a political entity that once controlled corporations completely – NSDAP. Il Duce would agree.
Did you ever do any history at school?
After what happened to Jaques Baud, it is hard to believe that Musk (for people like you the show is more important than what they do) would have any sympathy left for the EUSSR.
But I understand your anger, my little commie friend.
It only took one small information outlet to be no longer part of the global information monopol to keep your woke&warm agenda crushing.
And while you still have everything else, from Facebook, Google, Instagram, Youtube,
almost all the press and liegacy media,
only 2 men were able to reduce woke insanity by 90% within 2 years.
(That’s how big and fake the lie was)
Of course you’ll be angry at Elon for the rest of your life.
i guess you didn’t get the memo. He was gesturing throwing his heart out to the crowd. Keep up.
He got the memo.
Lefties have to lie about politics, and they have to lie about climate change.
Only a total nitwit would think Musk did a Nazi salute. Grow up! Now, if he said “sieg heil” when he did it, that would be different. Keep in mind he’s on the spectrum- his behavior is always a bit odd- but he also is a genius in many ways.
The Germans think he did, and i trust them on that.
Oxymoron
Germans/Thinking
Germans probably got it from CNN !! 😉
And you probably trust Germans that they’re going to arrive at Net Zero nirvana.
Yes, anyone making that gesture is a Nazi, right?
Trust the straight down the middle, not actually hard left zealot Germans, right?
Hey, picture posted, but did not show up when I hit the button?
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Sometimes they post, sometimes not.
It is far more impactful when the pic shows up in the comment box!
Here is the litmus test:
Did Rene Good drive her SUV into that federal agent, yes or no?
Respectfully, please keep in mind that you can’t have a rational conversation with irrational people. Remember what Einstein said about insanity…and don’t let MyLusernameRetarded drive you insane.
I enjoy it. Here in Wokachusetts, I’ve been badgering the phony, fake, forestry establishment for about 40 years. They hate me- tried to take my forestry license, but they lost that battle, twice.
Meh!
Uh, oh- I missed that- sad to see that she’s a Nazi. 🙂
Just like that Jew in Ukraine, the Nazi leader of Ukraine. 🙂
And the Mayor or NYC? He did the same gesture.
When?
Not DURING HIS SWEARING IN, I hope!
Elon did not do a Nazi salute… any more than Walz and Newscum have done regularly.
He was just enthusiastically saying “my heart goes out to you”.
The real fascists are all on the far-left. !
Lying about Musk making a Nazi salute is pathetic.
And you know it’s a lie. That’s what is so bad.
When a person puts their fist or open over their heart before raising the arm in a salute, that person is not making a Nazi or Fascist salute any more than a student in class raising their hand to ask or answer a question.
The origins of the salute in question comes from Mussolini (fascism) and even earlier from the French revolution.
Prior to Mussolini, at the end of WWI, it was the D’Annunzio salute used by nationalist involved in the occupation of Flume (modern day Croatia).
In the late 19th century, it was called the Bellamy salute (1892) and children used that salute when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/hitler-salute-roman-origins/
Wait, what?
Nazi Salute?
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Dyed in the wool!
I know countless people who died prematurely thanks to tobacco. But it’s not as if they didn’t know the risks. Yet, they should have a right to risk their lives if that’s what they want- just like many dangerous sports, and those fools joining the Russian army.
Personal freedom goes with personal responsibility.
What about passive smoking? Where is their freedom?
Personal freedom goes with personal responsibility.
That’s why so many offices and other buildings in America don’t allow smoking. Not like “Man Men”- one of my favorite series of all time- where everyone is smoking all the time.
Those ‘fools joining the russian army’ will be waiting for you. In a direct fight between the US and Russia right now, the US would lose. Only the propagandised US brain cannot deal w that possibillity..
I fear one thing the most: that, when the US starts losing control a Trump like figure egged on by neocon hawks might consider nukes..
In a direct fight between the US and Russia right now, the US would lose
Speculative at best.
And then they turn around and say that Ukraine is beating Russia..
Cognitive dissonance is very real with these clowns.
Ukraine is winning by not losing. A superpower couldn’t defeat its tiny neighbor in more time than it fought the Nazis.
That Ukraine has survived this long is not victory, certainly, but it also is not defeat.
Currently Russia is taking more casualties than the number of recruits. Short term is not a trend, but it is true.
Russia is recruiting from Africa, Middle East, and North Korea. If they were winning would they need that much augmented man power?
I wonder how the Russian casualties equate to losses per square meter of ground gained.
Russia can not even bring a country with no navy, no missile production and limited arms under control in 4 years. That country decimated the black fleet and has killed or injured over 1Million Russian soldiers.
Given that performance Russian expected survival against the USA would be about a week so it’s lucky they have a nuclear deterrent. Although one does wonder given the state of the normal Russian army whether half those nuclear missile would even get out of the silo.
Yes, Putin has created a million crying Russian mothers with his insane war on Ukraine.
At some point, the Russian mothers will have had enough of Putin and his egomania.
Ukraine has fought the Russians to a Standstill. Russia is now reduced to importing fighters from all over the world because they are running out of native Russians. And it’s not helping them a bit. Lots of foreign fighters’ mothers are now crying because of Putin’s insanity.
One insane man in the wrong position can inflict harm on millions of people. That’s what we have with Putin.
I do wish Trump would stop trying to humanize Putin. He’s not human, Donald.
My theory is that Trump doesn’t give a dam about Russia or Putin. He despises both. I think he is trying to back away from the battle to let the Europeans handle it- and they can if they have the guts to do so. I think Trump believes if America convinces Russia it’s active in the war, it’ll stiffen their spines to keep the war going even longer because they’re always paranoid and having America as a direct enemy is good reason to be very paranoid.
Very valid point. It is a point to consider that Trump is working to get Europe to put on their “big boy pants.”
Trump – Putin.
One has to consider tactics.
Sometimes the big stick is the way.
Somedays Teddy Roosevelt’s approach works best.
Instead of sending it’s best people to fight in Ukraine, it sends all its criminals out of prison- some of whom actually survive and go home to cause tremendous problems.
It is sending criminals because its best have already passed through the meat grinder into body bags and portable crematoriums. Now it seems they meerly use trash bags or stack the dead in unused meat processing factories.
Not many from Moscow or St. Parkersburg have been in the fight. Russia did lose many of its elite soldiers so far but those were the “professionals”- not the ordinary middle class and wealthy from those cities. It’s mostly the criminals and desperately poor from the rural regions and now Africans, Indians, Cubans, etc. So, Putler is afraid of a general mobilization which would stir up the population as we’re now seeing in Iran.
Very true concerning the elites from Moscow or St. Petersburg.
“a direct fight between the US and Russia right now, the US would lose”
too funny to respond to- now I know you are off your meds 🙂
They want to be independent, like most countries. They have independence from Denmark but not what security issues are concerned. The US, as always does not care what any country wants. It only cares about itself. Ask any country that tried to be independent and neutral from the US. Had to be destroyed. Millions of lives lost.
So, to me the irony of people here claiming to care what greenlanders want is like a sick joke. Like Trump saying he cares about people dying in Ukraine. Liar..
Ask any country that tried to be independent and neutral from the US. Had to be destroyed. Millions of lives lost.
List please.
No list provided. He is just blowing smoke, when it comes to the United States, as usual.
Greenland does not have “independence” from The Kingdom of Denmark. It is a semi-autonomous territory with self-governance for local affairs only.
“Obviously it is up to the American people how US tax dollars are spent”
Is it?
It never was.
According to a Princeton Study, after analyzing what the voter gets and what the rich donors
get, the USA is an oligarchy.
‘Oligarchy’ — a small group, historically ‘The Thirty Tyrants’, usurpers of the Athenian Republic:
And that‘s what our struggle is all about. It remains a work-in-progress. Q.E.D.
Replace the word “get” with “produce”. Any true oligarchy doesn’t have to worry about losing their wealth and status. In America, many wealthy do lose their wealth and status. America’s class system is a far cry from the caste system of India or the old landed wealth of Europe- or the class systems in current authoritarian regimes like China and many others.
Ah yes, the US exception special status sales pitch. Sorry but yr shiny light on the hill is dimming..
If you really don’t understand what makes America different- you really need to crack open an elementary history book.
Make sure it is not published after 2020.
A year or so ago I saw a video of Thomas Sowell talking about those who attack “The Rich”.
He pointed out that they present “The Rich” as a nameless, faceless group of people who have succeeded. What they never never mention is that the names and faces of “The Rich” constantly changes. Some enter that category and others drop out.
He also brought up the fact that many of the new names and faces are those who have worked and saved/invested all their lives and have accumulated enough to now be called “Rich”.
(Many retired people might be surprised to learn that those out to tax “The Rich” consider them to now be “Rich”!”)
Is? no. Should be? yes.
It’s really no different than any narcissistic teenager, which is what leftists remind me of more than anything.
They want to live in your house, eat your food, use your car, consume your utilities, piggyback your phone, streaming service and high speed internet plans, and expect you to make their meals and do their laundry, but contribute nothing, won’t even keep their own room clean and throw a tantrum when you set a rule they don’t like.
You deserve some kind of award for your clearly worded analogy.
Sounds like a Democrat !! 😉
Or a libertine. Wait? Is there a difference? 🙂
story tip
Lake Balaton freezes over completely after nine years – but it is still life-threatening
For the first time since 2017, Lake Balaton has frozen over with a continuous sheet of ice, following several days of persistent, severe frost across Hungary.
Walking on thin ice is discouraged.
With 56K population spread over the whole island Greenland isn’t even a large city. I think the populace could care less about AGW and may even welcome it were it true. Even with NATO (without US involvement) Denmark couldn’t protect it, they don’t have the money to take advantage of their natural resources and Denmark doesn’t either … or don’t want to spend it …, and they’ve already surrendered their sovereignty to the EU. What’s the problem for Greenland?
Get a grip….both Canada and Greenland let US overfly their territory at will…put up whatever radar stations they want….all just to humor US military hawks and avoid the very “annexation” that DJT is now pushing. Face it, for US it’s relatively zero cost to takeover 56,000 pop. of fishing villages…but the amount of tax dollars that can be scammed and spent in the “military-industrial complex” for a military build-up to supposedly “defend” it is immense.
That’s the goal….sell military might to both US tax payers and foreign powers. On the march to Trump history book greatness….sad really, the possibility of your children or grandchildren meeting their end in an anti-drone bunker has increased.
The scenarios some people dream up!
This might happen. That might happen. Maybe. . .
Trump could offer to make all Greenlanders millionaires- with the money to paid to them over say 20 years. That would be a deal for the great deal maker Trump. Worth every penny.
I think Trump has already offered each Greenlander $100,000.00.
He may need to up the bid a little bit.
USA want taking over Greenland since more than 100 years.
Historically factual.
When Alaska was purchased in 1867, there was serious discussions about acquiring Greenland to effect a balance as it were.
(1867) Secretary of State William H. Seward saw strategic value in the island, though no formal offer was made then; the first concrete U.S. attempt was President Truman’s $100 million offer in gold in 1946.
The problem is obviously an ego maniac who feels he can just ‘take’ things. If you don’t consider that an issue you are part of the slop..
Trump is just trying to buy Greenland at the moment.
Actually.. more like teasing out the options 😉
yes, tactical feints
lol.. sometimes I’m not so sure there is that much “tactical” about it 🙂 🙂
The problem most people have is that take literally what is said.
I recall a time when it was taught that actions speak louder than words.
You really should think these things through before posting.
Now that right there is funny!
I hope Greenlanders aren’t losing sleep over their weather getting slightly warmer..
Eric:
Not one of your finest efforts. I don’t see the Greenlanders worrying about apocalyptic climate change after all they’re sitting on a mountain of archeologic evidence (and folk memories) of the benefits of a warmer climate. As regards defence, there’s a perfectly good, and longstanding agreement in place which allows for the US to place forces in Greenland to counter any emerging threats.
I don’t think they are worried about climate change either. The idea a US military presence is required to alleviate climate concerns is absurd.
Indeed but nothing is ever enough for Trump. Ego maniac.
TDS
What you meant to say is “Nothing is enough for America”
That is Trump’s real ethos. !
That is what MAGA means.
Get your greasy, greedy little rat hands off our hemisphere and go back to the totalitarian slide on your own continent.
Some guy waved at it a few hundred years ago, so that makes it yours, forever?
You have no people there, we have defended it since before we were even in WWII, It’s on our continent and our sphere of influence.
The big question is, does Greenland belong to Greenlanders?
Because I betcha in the end, they would rather be rich Americans than dirt poor Danes.
If Alaska was “Seward’s Folly”, perhaps Greenland could be “Trump’s Folly”.
Look how Alaska turned out.
Yes, the United States currently operates one active military base in Greenland.
Pituffik Space Base (Formerly Thule Air Base)As of early 2026, Pituffik Space Base (pronounced bee-doo-FEEK) is the only remaining U.S. military installation on the island. It is the northernmost Department of Defense installation in the world, located about 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Guessing I’m one of the few who’s actually been there. Way back ~1970, USAF pilot on a C-141.
I visited North of the Arctic circle once, though not the base. Interesting experience.
And there is zero need for an expansion unless you have big plans, like starting a war..
No.. STOPPING a war.
Making sure Russian and China cannot get too much of a grip near the USA.
That is what Venezuela is mainly about
That is what Greenland is mainly about.
Panama, too.
Why have wars when you should be doing deals instead?
Wars are the product of failed politicians.
As Pete Clemenza in The Godfather said about Hitler –
“they shoulda stopped him at Munich . . . “
When one gets past media headlines and dives into what actually happens, one finds D.J.Trump is a master at deals.
Making noise up front merely causes confusion and puts your opponent off balance, not knowing what to expect. Then go in with a reasonable, but favorable offer and your opponent falls over himself to agree.
Trump sez the capitol of Greenland will be changed from Nuuk to NukNuk.
He’s a funny fella ! 🙂
It is really fun watching him try to get the right nibble, using different baits….
… leftists grab the hook every time.. which is even funnier.
Throw out a bit of burley, see what biting !!
I am surprised DJT did not propose renaming it Trumpland.
Of course that sounds like a theme park, but hey.
“Temperatures soaring in Australia”.. It is SUMMER, you dolt !!
Yes, we have bushfires.. very regularly in SUMMER, always have always will.
Around 1900 was significantly warmer
But if we only went net zero yesterday the fires would not happen 🙂
Certainly if you went net zero yesterday you would have net zero capacity for dealing with the fires.
Greenlanders worrying about a little bit of warming.
LOL !!
Now that is deep-seated brain-washing for sure !!
The europeans are just starting to realise that getting totally hooked up to the US has serious drawbacks.
Russophobia has blinded them for decades. They bought the US ‘brave new world’ sales pitch not realising the US establishment does not give a flying F about them. And now the mask is finally off. Ministry of War, indeed. Shitshow.
Wont help the dying giant, though. It’s all bluff and fireworks. A bully never choses a worthy opponent, just lower beings to humiliate, like Venezuela or the europeans. The US will get its comeuppance when it tries to impose its will on the big players. It is constantly pushing its luck. But the Glory Days are far behind. The 2nd coming but a mere mind spasm. It is a bit like climate change, always 5 to 10 years away.
That’s what they said about the British Empire. That’s what the whole James Bond thing was about, but Smiley knows better.
The understanding of geo politics of the general american is appalling..
This Greenland thing is total slop..
The understanding of geo politics as espoused by you is appalling in its lack of intelligent thought.
It’s one big conspriacy theory to him. Neocon, and Selfish Americans, and the Military-Industrial Complex, and Trump is an out-of-control ego maniac bent on war.
The easiest way to gut Europe’s climate crusade is for the USA to pull out of NATO. Activists are already complaining conflict with Russia is distracting Europe from spending money on green activism, totally pulling the US military crutch would force them to choose between speaking Russian or defunding climate change.
concur
Ah, but according to you, Russia is not a bully and Ukraine is not “winning.”
Haha!
What a dunce you are!
The funniest part is you are sure you are correct and have no idea how incredibly dumb you look to any rational person.
He has all you TDH loons hopping around like a marionette.
Seriously.
He makes you take the wrong side of every issue, makes you insist that things be done you were dead set against, and against the things that were your highest priorities ten minutes prior!
He makes you do what he wants on cue, without fail, whenever he wants.
He wanted the US out of NATO, out of Europe, and for Europe to take care of problems in its own back yard.
The left freaked out!
No, you all said, the US has to endlessly fund Ukraine no matter howe much it costs or how long it takes.
You said we had to send US troops there, and that Europe was too weak to defend itself.
NO one in the world had ever even noticed there was a place called Greenland on the map.
No one knew that the US had had the only forces there since 1941, or that we had 17 bases from then until the end of the cold war, and that we now have only one of them manned.
B Ut then a hostile reporter asks him a loaded question, and kept insisting he give the answer she wanted to a ridiculous question
. When he declined to say what she wanted him to say in the words she said he needed to say, it was the end of the world!
Instantly, the left in the US and the EU is insisting the US get the hell out of Europe, completely!
Get off our bases!
Go away, leave behind all the kit!
The EU is talking about cozying up with China and even Russia, and war with the authoritarian US is now inevitable…Trump is gonne invade Greenland! But the Danes have the Ice fighters, so they will annihilate us in a war of attrition!
Pew pew us from the snow, while we trip over our shoelaces and run in circles…a paper tiger!
They have more guys, more planes, more ships, and we are now isolated!
Even Canada is gonna fight us!
Oh, he is gonna attack, for sure, he said so.
But he never said jack shit.
He refused to rule out a ridiculous scenario when demanded by some jackass reporter!
But that is not what the left heard, over here or ever there, you all talked about how he SAID he was gonna do it!
But it’s checkmate for the US…when the EU dumps it treasuries, the US is broke and we will all starve because they are “calling our debt!”
An avalanche of jackass nonsense!
Last week, The guy Biden had a $25 million bounty on, that every country in the EU and also the UN agreed had not won the election, he was illegitimate, they gave the Nobel Prize to the opposition leader…he goes in and snatches him, and then every last man and machine leaves, 3 hours, in and out…but OMG, the US invaded! We are in a war! We cannot win it!
He stole the oil!
Maduro, poor Maduro!
The worst person ion the world, the drug dealer, political prisoner taking, opposition murdering, dictator, who starves his entire country, oh, now he is the great wronged leader!
So much for NO Kings! Holy moly, he had you all weeping for a bloodthirsty drug dealing jackal, a communist strongman with zero legitimacy!
When it was Iran, oh no! We are in for it now!
We pissed off Iran!
When he got rid of the worst terror mastermind of our lifetime, the retaliation was gonna be godawful!
They laughed in his face when he warned them ten years ago to be careful of depending on Russian gas.
Biden said if Putrin just invades a little, it would be understandable, Putin asked for a single promise, no NATO for Ukraine, Biden refused to promise it, he practically invited then begged Putin to invade, but what? Any pushback?
No one on the left said squat, not when Biden left an intact base and $85 billion in top shelf hardware, and led to the worst optics since Saigon!
No one on the left said Jack shit!
Women across the US are laying down in the road when ICE tries to arrest pedophiles, murderers and rapists!
Judges go to prison when they try to arrest a wife beating criminal outside her hallway!
It is hard to believe how easily you are all emotionally manipulated into taking the wrong side of every 80/20 issue that exists!
We are right on the verge of Trump having the Mullahs out of Iran, and the Communists out of Cuba!
Trump has ended nearly every conflict on the planet, some have simmered for decades.
But oh no, Orange Man bad, it is the downfall of civilization!
The list of wins is so long it is impossible to keep track!
The border?
OMG!
The truth?
The stage is set for what may be the economic boom of all time.
Oh, noes!
Just like when he showed up every person on that stage in 2015-2016, ended the Bushes, the Clintons, all them uniparty clowns, now he is exposing what treacherous rats the people we have been the decades long benefactor of.
The left is now nakedly cheerleading for bad news, openly defending every criminal that ever done someone wrong, and hating on anything that sounds like a good thing.
The left cheered like it was the superbowl when patriotic Americans were locked up without charges for months on end, and sent to prison for long sentences for just about nothing, including some people who were not even there.
But simply will not tolerate deporting illegal alien criminals!
No, no way.
They want to dox them, so they can all be locked up, the police, locked up for arresting criminals, once they win an election!
The left has made this country an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Trump is doing what Trump does best – making a lot of noise and seeing what the reactions are.
Options are being assessed, of course, but we will not know the real plan until some action is taken.
Popcorn and beer time.
“Trump is doing what Trump does best – making a lot of noise and seeing what the reactions are.”
Yeah, it’s called “the Art of the Deal”.
I know. 🙂
I likened it elsewhere to fishing…
Throw out a whole heap of burley, try different lures and baits…
See what bites 😉
I can’t blame the people of Greenland for negativity toward Trump and the US even if they appreciate our defense. Trump is easy to question even dislike. Trump has done more good for the US than any leader since Reagan. He is a hard person to defend primarily because of his in your face New York behavior. One of my best friends is from New York, he is a true friend, he is really smart, he has taught me a lot about Jews, he has helped me understand a lot of things and I really like him but not many of my other friends like being around him. He is pretty much non political but very liberal. I see a lot of similarities between him and Trump. Getting back to Greenland I am convinced that the news they get is even crappier than the swill we get here in the US which is bad enough. It is not hard to understand their reservations concerning anything involving the US.
But they are also aware of China and Russia nosing around their island, and have no ideas about how to deal with this which don’t involve US protection.
I give Trump a 50:50 of pulling out of NATO before the end of his term – so no US protection except on Trump’s terms.
No way does Trump pull out of NATO.
But you can be darn sure he will throw out the suggestion. 😉
Yes, Trump does a lot of things to shake up the opposition, be it the loony domestic Democrats, or the loony foreign politicians.
But Trump absolutely will not pull out of NATO. He would be crazy to do so, and Trump is not crazy.
Trump has actually turned NATO into a viable defense entity, and they are paying their own way now. Trump has things in NATO just the way he wants them.
The NATO countries should be happy that they now present more of a detererent to our common enemies.
“Trump has things in NATO just the way he wants them.”
Not quite. Trump has things in NATO just the way they should be, the way the pledged.
Why does the US need NATO?
They hate us, and NATO does not protect us, it protects THEM!
Do you want to go to war for them?
Why should we have this gigantic obligation, and they have no forces worth a shit to carry their end of the log if there is a conflict.
NATO was a counterweight to the Warsaw Pact.
NATO should have dissolved when the USSR dissolved.
We will always do what we think is best on a case by case basis, not a one-sided pact that costs us a fortune, does nothing for us, and commits us to prote4cting them.
They are all gonna be living under Sharia pretty soon anyway.
It is already too late.
Pulling out may be the only way to make them see what danger they have put themselves in.
And we do not have bases because of NATO, those bases are ours. Let them try to kick us out or “take them back”.
In over 2000 years of nearly continuous war, no country in Europe EVER gave back an inch of land acquired after a war was won. EVER.
Look it up and watch of video of the changes in borders in Europe over the centuries.
Screw them. NATO is nothing we need.
The only questions relate to how it ends, not if.
And good riddance.
We should kick the UN out next.
We can kick them out, but they cannot kick us out.
We need to stop apologizing for being the big dog.
We earned it, or parents and grandparents bought it for us in blood.
But those as swipes we have given so much for, they act like we owe them.
These are leftists, and what they hate us for the most is, we are going the other way.
He is going to make them do it!
They are dancing on a string.
I agree, but never say never. Given today’s climate, DJT will not fracture NATO.
What tomorrow brings is unknown, except as nonsense from climate models.
NATO is us giving our money to them so they can have 8 weeks of vacation, which no one here ever had ever in our lives.
If the shoe was on the other foot, how would they have treated us after WWII, or ever since?
They would have divvied us up and taken us over.
They are leeches. Unpleasant, deranged, hateful…
The US is the most generous country on Earth.
We let them come here and mine, drill, farm, buy businesses, steal away entire of our industries and expert them to there…
And they are screaming a hair on fire emergency, because they say we are stealing their resources.
They have outlawed mining and drilling, and would never let anyone come from outside and take a blade of grass.
They have refused to let us sell into their markets, and we have let them get away with it.
And now they want to fight us over Greenland?
The idea alone is enough reason to leave them high and dry.
They are about to give unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, answerable to no one and undislodgable, an ARMY!
Greenland is not part of Europe.
The will not and cannot defend it.
And it is on our Hemisphere, on our Continent.
Our frickin tectonic plate!
Besides, every ballistic missile aimed at us from Russia, passes over Greenland, and Greenland is directly below the apogee, the only logical and even possible place to shoot them down.
NATO is about to kick the US out of the alliance we convened!
Just wait and see.
The nonexistent Russian/Chinese ships around Greenland?
Submarines are ships, although often referred to as “boats.”
We do not get classified military briefings, so it is rather difficult to say what is actually happening.
China is a much greater threat, seaborn, than Russia, but Russia has warships.
“I can’t blame the people of Greenland for negativity toward Trump and the US even if they appreciate our defense. Trump is easy to question even dislike.”
That happens because the Leftwing Media lies constantly about Trump and anything he is doing.
Unfortunately, a lot of people in the United States and around the world are easily misled by the Leftwing propaganda and as a result, are divorced from reality.
Why do we still have NATO?
We sure do not need it, they do!
I am now in the Adios Muchachos camp re NATO!