What’s going on here?

The whole family are delusional.

Omg buy it. F*ck the 52nd state of Denmark.

Nothing. No matter what’s offered Denmark will just laugh.

Anyone have a link to the Sam Tripoli Greenland conspiracy Twitter thread?

Ice caps are melting for whatever reason and everyone wants to get at the minerals located there that can now be mined. 

Trump should use US debt to buy Demmark too and save the fuss.

Quiet, Mute.

Greenland has a very large reserve of precious material beneath the ice and snow.

You don’t send DJTJ when you want a job done well.

Clearly the US military establishment has been in Trump’s ear. They haven’t suddenly developed a fetish for Greenland because of their shrimp exports. This is all about developing an American naval base to counter Russian control of the Arctic. One of the lesser talked about things is Russia’s expansion of its nuclear icebreaker fleet. The Northern Sea Route has become increasingly strategic for Russia, which used this route to transport more than 36 million tons of cargo in 2023, up from 4 million in 2014. That number is expected to increase more than fivefold in the next 10 years. And securing these routes requires Russia’s nuclear submarine fleet. And now Russian has lost it’s port in Tartus giving it access to the Mediterranean, it means Russia will be much more reliant on expanding it’s northern control of the Arctic and much more reliant on it’s nuclear submarines.

The US is engaged in some big long term geopolitical strategising. This isn’t Trump that is driving this – he is of course just doing what he is told. But I think there are those within the US military establishment that have decided that Greenland provides a solution for their desire to control access out of the Arctic. Greenland is now extremely strategic as it would provide the United States the ability to better monitor and control access of the Northern Sea Route and specifically the Northeastern passage and access to the North Atlantic. The reason Trump is interested in this, as opposed to Democratic Administrations, is that Greenland becoming American soil would make the US less reliant on Europe, the United Kingdom and specifically Scotland and Iceland. Up until 2006, the US military had a strategic foothold in Iceland, under the guise of the Iceland Defense Force, which was comprised of the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Air Force.  The US used the Keflavik base primarily to carry out air defense and maritime surveillance in the North Atlantic. GW Bush decided to unilaterally withdraw all US troops from this base in 2006. And now Scotland is one of the few places that can service and support American nuclear submarines.

The Trump team likely understands that their support of Brexit has made it much more likely that Scotland will eventually gain it’s independence from the United Kingdom. That poses a strategic vulnerability to the US as an independent Scotland may be much less cooperative with the US than the UK. So gaining control over Greenland makes the US far less reliant on good relations with Europe – and that becomes important if one of their goals is to weaken the NATO alliance.

Don’t want any leftist eurolike states added…

Stargate in Greenland.

I think this is all about countering Chinese influence in the arctic. As the ice caps recede, more sources of oil & minerals (including rare earth elements) are likely to be found in the northern oceans, and potentially on land in Greenland (and Canada) itself. Recognize that China has a monopoly on a lot of those elements currently, and it would make sense that they want to protect it by restricting other country’s access.

A few years ago, China tried building airports on the island as part of the new silk road initiative that were ultimately withdrawn following American pressure. Imagine a scenario where they built the airports, defaulted on loans, and now there are Chinese airports with potential military capabilities that close to Canada/America. This ultimately seems like a bombastic way for Trump to insert more American influence and to keep others at bay. It’s not realistic that Greenland or Canada will suddenly become some new American state or territory, but Trump’s priorities are clear to suppress China. China after all considers itself a “near-Arctic” state (whatever that means) and is actively vying for control of the resources that are emerging there.

Near Arctic State:
[What Does China’s Arctic Presence Mean to the United States? | RAND](https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2022/what-does-chinas-arctic-presence-mean-to-the-us.html)

Air Port Article:
[China withdraws bid for Greenland airport projects: Sermitsiaq newspaper | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/business/china-withdraws-bid-for-greenland-airport-projects-sermitsiaq-newspaper-idUSKCN1T5190/)

Maybe he’s seeing dollar signs and trying to do to Greenland what Biden did with Hunter and Ukraine.