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Posted on 01/20/2026 10:49:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump is correct to want to exercise control over Greenland, but his methodology is problematic. The present situation is unworkable since we are forced to spend money and risk our personnel with little benefit to us during the immediate period.
Ownership is not the only solution to this conundrum. There are several possible methods to fulfill the requirements that Trump seeks.
One proposal would be modeled after the arrangement Great Britain had with China for Hong Kong, in which the former had a 99-year lease for the territory. There are many variations on this theme. Mineral resources secured could be used to pay the lease. The lease could have an option for renewal, and there could be negotiations about the renewal. Military bases could be included in the lease arrangement with the choice for their use in a protective missile dome battery.
A second option would include a purchase of a portion of the largest geological island in the hemisphere. Rather than gaining the entire landmass, significant areas might be more reasonable. The population is not interested in USA ownership, so this would be unpopular. Further, the citizenry is used to social services that are not part of the American practice. So the population of Greenland would remain independent of the USA, but the vast territory would be ours.
There could be a joint ownership of the land by Denmark and USA with delineated responsibilities and obligations. A power-sharing situation would strengthen the relationship between the two countries.
The threatened tariffs against several European countries is damaging Trump’s position with independent voters. It is essential for the Trump agenda to maintain Republican control of the Congress. Threatened warfare is too bellicose and can be posed as dictatorial. Hopefully, some simple solution can be reached before the press plays this...
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Under then President Andrew Johnson, When the government bought Alaska from Russia, there was an effort to gain Greenland. The purchase of Alaska was viewed as a folly then. Today, we recognize its critical nature. Perhaps cooler heads can recognize the value of Greenland before it is challenged by Russia or China.
We also tried to purchase Greenland in 1910 under President Taft and there was another offer to purchase Greenland in 1946 after the Second World War under President Truman, both offers were rejected by Denmark,
Denmark associates Greenland with its Viking past and it’s hard for them to let go of that. Iceland didn’t become independent until 1944, and that was because Denmark, then under German occupation, couldn’t do anything about it.
"Alaska is ours!"
If I were Greenland....I’d just want independence, period....then turn to Trump for a fee/rent deal....x-amount of space, for $12-B a year.
We occupied Iceland in 1942.
Check that, it was actually 1941, when we took over Iceland from the British, and that was before Pearl Harbor.
“The population is not interested in USA ownership”
How brainwashed is the Greenland population? There are billions of people worldwide who would think they’d won the freakin’ lottery if they were offered U.S. citizenship and a cash payout (I’ve heard $100k or more per person bandied about). And yet the folks living in near-povery in a frozen sh-thole like Greenland are like, “Meh”? It makes no sense.
I thought the left said ‘No Kings’, well technically a King rules over Greenland.
I think people are missing the bigger picture here. The world is being split up into hard and fast “spheres of influence” that will function more as regional empires.
We have exited the period of the American Republic and we have entered the period of the American Empire. It is critical we do so to prop up our failing currency.
The play being made on Greenland is for 2 purposes.
1 - To move that huge landmass away from whichever regional empire will control Europe and into the American regional empire
2 - A pincher move against Canada.
Canada is breaking apart. It is only a matter of time before there will no longer be a country called Canada.
The action in Venezuela is also a part of the pincher move against what will be left of Canada. Venezuela oil is the same type as Canadian oil and will be used as a real or threatened replacement in our refineries for Canadian oil if the Canadian shake up doesn’t go the way that the U.S. wants it go.
Things are moving very fast.
Make it a real estate deal. We buy the land the bases are on plus whatever adjacent land is needed for the Dome or whatever. That way, we have no obligation to provide social services or overhead capital to the people of Greenland but we owe the land for the bases. A tangent benefit to the people is that they know we will defend Greenland and its bases.
So long as Greenland is owned by Denmark, there are existing treaties that let us do pretty much whatever we want in the way of bases. If Greenland becomes independent, the best bet would be for, as part of that deal, the treaties to carry over to the gov’t of an independent Greenland.
I keep wondering:
1) If Greenland becomes independent, is Denmark going to keep forking over the bennies? Without them, or substantial minerals extraction, the Greenlanders would be quite poor - and PRESENT income levels (with the bennies) are ~ 1/3 of Alaska’s.
2) If Greenland is such an imperative (a plausible argument can be made), and given those existing treaties, why has our presence there (~ 250 personnel @ Thule) become so small?
The minerals, if they are even practical to go after, under moving ice, are another matter, but leases are certainly a practical way to go.
Good point. The Greenland population seems to be a bunch of welfare bums, last thing in the world we need.
Trump should make it known that as a U.S. territory Greenlanders will enjoy all the same rights and privileges as the folks in Puerto Rico and, like Puerto Rico, without all the federal demands the federal government can only make on states. Unlike Denmark the U.S. has the wherewithal to give Greenland a real economy.
Regardless, I think Trump has pursued the matter in a horribly bad way. From the get-go very friendly carrots would have worked better than a baseball bat.
Trump forgets sometimes that some other folks have just as much pride for their countries and their past as Trump thinks we should have for ours. In some negotiations that is an “equal” position that friends of different strengths recognize.
We would have had to give Iceland back to Denmark at the end of the war but over 95% of Icelanders voted for independence in a 1944 referendum.
Greenlanders have achieved home rule in the last few decades with 1979 and 2009 legislation with Denmark still in charge of foreign affairs, defense, and monetary policy. Greenland still wants full independence but they are economically dependent on Denmark and afraid that they couldn’t make it economically on their own. I suppose we could offer Greenlanders commonwealth status — as a kind of Puerto Rico with polar bears instead of palm trees — but it’s probably too late for that.
If I were Greenland....I’d just want independence, period.
Greenland if ever independent will be independent in name only.
We would have had to give Iceland back to Denmark at the end of the war but over 95% of Icelanders voted for independence in a 1944 referendum.
Correct.
As Bobby sang, they’re gonna have to serve somebody.
There are no borders per globalist policy. Greenland’s population is 57000. A colonizing company like the Massachusetts Bay Company could be set up to recruit young , strong American coules, 100, 000 strong to go there as indentured servants with plenty of money, supplies ,resources for a four year term, own their own land, house etc if they want to extend their stay, demand a plebiscite, we’re in.
This didn't work out either.
This didn't work out either.
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