So about Greenland
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His hubris is approaching Hitleresque/Putinesque levels.
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.
“The problem is that Trump has gotten into his head that the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ is his thing,” the second person said. “He’s now very focused on this. And it’s hard to come to an agreement with the Danes when Trump thinks he can just take it.”
I'm thinking DJT presses for a swap. He threatens to stop support of Ukraine unless he gets Greenland. Of course he's already negotiated for access to Ukraine's vast resources, but the US would be facing off with Russia in order to access those. Just take Greenland and move on.
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4 steps to getting Greenland.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-easy-steps-nato-policy-deal-military/
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Yeah, I am under the impression that Greenland has lots of ice.
On to branding:
Rename "Greenland" to "Trumpland," create a new chapter for "The Trump Purchase" in the history books -- bigger than the Louisiana Purchase at 828,000 sq. miles, Greenland has 836,000 sq. miles.
