In a statement, the White House told the BBC that Trump had made clear that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
In a statement, the White House told the BBC that Trump had made clear that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
A few reasonAs the polar ice caps melt even more and war likely ramps up, having a very large base of operations in the North Atlantic has a lot of strategic value. That makes the generals like it.
The oligarchs like it because, as global warming intensifies, Greenland will likely be prime real estate. It is similar to why they want to annex Canada.
And putin wants it because it will likely kill NATO and the EU. Because Greenland is… weird. It is technically part of Denmark but also isn’t. It is an ally of the EU but it isn’t actually IN the EU. So it will be very easy for the EU to basically say “We don’t want a war. Whatever. Take one for the team Denmark” which will pretty much guarantee its death because no nation will trust any other nation to “have their back” in the event of a war.
It also means the USA militarily surrounds Canada on every side, which is significant given Trump’s frequently expressed desire to annex Canada.
I’m… “optimistic” is not at all the right word considering how depressing all of this is.
But I’m Something that the US has no intentions of using military force against Canada (so just economic and political…). trump can demand whatever he wants but even the lowly colonels will soil themselves at the thought and find ways to refuse.
Because starting a war in The Middle East or Venezuela or even Europe is one thing. Pretty much nothing can actually hurt the continental US without fighting through a fleet of aircraft carriers and all our airbases.
Whereas Canada and Mexico share pretty massive borders with us. If they want to retaliate, they will.
Of course… its trump so he might very well just tell people on twitter to go throw pipe bombs across the border to get the war he wants.
Fighting Canada would go about as well as Russia into Ukraine, with less fighters and an ineffective Navy.
Oh. It would go about 4.45x worse (ignoring Alaska). And russia can’t even properly protect their border and prevent Ukrainian strike teams from crossing it.