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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,902 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:06 PM Tuesday

Trump says his Greenland fixation is about national security. Europeans are skeptical.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. needs Greenland for national security, ostensibly to counter Russia and China. But Trump’s interest in the sparsely populated island appears to be as much about hemispheric dominance as homeland defense.

According to two people familiar with private high-level discussions and granted anonymity to share their details, the White House has shown little interest in an overture last year from Denmark’s prime minister offering the U.S. the option to increase its military presence in Greenland, where it already operates a base and has long deployed troops at liberty.

“The option of more U.S. military presence has been on the table,” said one of the people, a European defense official. “The White House is not interested.”

The second person, an American in frequent contact with the administration and European officials, said that most of what Trump says he wants out of Greenland — access to investment resources like critical minerals, more troops and military bases, better intelligence sharing — could be easily accomplished by negotiating directly with Denmark, a steadfast ally.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-greenland-fixation-national-105500996.html

He's like a toddler that sees something he likes and screams, "That's mine!!!"

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(55,929 posts)
1. Hitler's rationale for invading Poland looks reasonable in comparison
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:08 PM
Tuesday

And it wasn't reasonable at all.

We have *zero* claim on Greenland.

None.

Initech

(107,459 posts)
2. This is what happens when you let batshit crazy conspiracy theorists fill your head with garbage.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:15 PM
Tuesday

I'd say Trump needs to purge Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Ben Shapiro et al from his system, but there is so much of it in his system that it's not possible.

LeftinOH

(5,619 posts)
3. NATO means nothing to him, as wasn't involved in its creation; it's someone else's 'baby.'
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:19 PM
Tuesday

Let's remember that Trump has little use for agreements, treaties, or deals that he did not "negotiate" himself: Instead of tweaking NAFTA, he had to discard it completely and come up with the "US, Canada & Mexico Trade Agreement." He conjured up "Space Force" when neither the US Air Force nor NASA was considered sufficient. Then there's the narcissistic re-naming of buildings after himself..

Uncle Joe

(64,240 posts)
4. *rump's polices of burning fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow accelerating, and magnifying climate change
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:24 PM
Tuesday

will make Greenland a global security issue as it holds a huge supply of the world's fresh water second only to Antarctica.

*rump and his global oligarch cabal have written off the vast majority of humans as just corporate losses.

That's what his every nation for itself policies are all about.

Thanks for the thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin



Blues Heron

(8,393 posts)
5. Nutlicks family is invested in Greenland mining through cantor Fitzgerald- this is an oligarch move.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 04:15 PM
Tuesday

They’re going to grab it because they can get away with it.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,007 posts)
7. MaddowBlog-Team Trump confirms: The administration wants to buy Greenland
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:05 PM
Wednesday

Where exactly does the president intend to get the money to buy a massive arctic island that isn’t for sale?

Mike Johnson: Rubio was kidding about Trump wanting to buy Greenland.

Rubio: No, I wasn’t. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-07T19:59:04.538Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-confirms-the-administration-wants-to-buy-greenland

The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported, and MS NOW confirmed, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers in a classified briefing this week that the White House is less interested in military action and more interested in trying to buy Greenland — which, by all accounts, is not currently for sale.

On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson brushed off the idea, telling reporters that Rubio might’ve made the comment “in jest.” The Louisiana Republican repeated the line Wednesday morning, explaining at a Capitol Hill press conference that he thinks he remembers hearing the secretary of state talk about a possible Greenland purchase, but the GOP leader said he “took it as a joke.”

Readers, it was not a joke.

Q: Does the US intend to buy Greenland?

MARCO RUBIO: That's always been the president's intent

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-07T16:31:55.422Z


Asked to clarify comments he made to lawmakers behind closed doors on Monday, Rubio told reporters late Wednesday morning that it’s “always” been Trump’s “intent” to try to buy Greenland.

Less than an hour later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said largely the same thing, explaining during a briefing that the president is “actively” discussing the purchase of Greenland.

Leavitt says Trump is "actively" discussing buying Greenland

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-07T17:10:56.139Z


As policy priorities go, all of this seems plainly ridiculous. And yet it also raises a host of new and related questions: Where exactly does Trump intend to get the money to buy a massive arctic island that isn’t for sale? Is he going to ask Congress to appropriate the funds? Would GOP lawmakers be willing to write an enormous check?

And how embarrassed is the House speaker right now after his “took it as a joke” line has been publicly discredited by his ostensible allies?

I was also wondering how trump will get Congress to give him the funds to buy Greenland.
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