Chapotraphouse

The reason it is happening exists on a higher level.

They know they don't need it for defence. They know they already control it. They know they already have access to the resources there.

My take is that the nazis behind Trump want Greenland because they're trying to roll back culture and mindsets in the west to colonial mentality, they don't want to take it by force, they actually would prefer it was sold because the idea of a country selling the 50,000 human beings that live there to the US is a huge step backwards. If it was accepted it would push the entire west back into normalisation of colonial behaviour, it is a milestone of establishing the sale of human beings between one country and another. Then they can go further. The nazis have been salami slicing things backwards over time and this is another slice.

Everyone is focused on the land instead of the people that live there that do not want to be American.

I ain't reading all that. Free Palestine.

Is there anything more fitting than Europe and America tearing themselves apart over nothing. They ruled the world for a couple centuries and made everyone miserable but now they just burnout fighting themselves. It's like a fucking Stephen King novel ending or something.

Anyways, keep doing nothing and winning Xi.

So the Danish fools just gave Trump's claim Russia is targeting Greenland legitimacy by saying they sent troops because of Russia......

lmao they're gonna lose Greenland

This is acceptance of climate change, in typical reactionary fashion. Instead of doing anything to slow the rate of change and preserve the ecosystem, they want to secure the arctic area for resource exploration and military dominance. Greenland is just a convenient and weak country that can secure that for them.

1. Territorial expansion beyond just in name.

2. He’s a part of an evil eyes wide shut family descended from vikings that still uses ritual human sacrifice behind the curtain.

The infatuation is because of the new shipping lanes that will open as the ice caps melt, which will provide for much more efficient shipping of goods. Also Greenland holds vast reserves of resources such as rare-earths which the US sorely needs now that China is flexing its muscle and denying the US access to them for military uses.

I don't think it's that complicated. It's just legacy. Trump wants to have a big thing people can point to and associate with his administration. Annexation of Greenland would be that. He thinks it will be like the Alaska purchase, which is universally considered to have been an excellent deal for the US.

I think Trump's cognition will be lumped into the Pre- and Post-"Thank you for your attention to this matter!" phases. Ever since he started using that, the posts have been way more incomprehensible and hostile than the ones before.

I like the 'after centuries' part. How long does Trump think NATO has been around for?

Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet

the planet will explode unless I get my treat

He watched that new Greenland movie and thinks the US needs it in case a giant meteor strikes.

Taking Greenland will expand 200 mile exclusive economic zone. In typical American fashion if they don't want to make a deal, they steal it.

2012 - Dimensions of Oil and Gas Development in Greenland

In contrast to other parts of the Arctic, Greenland has not had extensive experience with oil and gas production. As prices rose internationally and the USGS estimated possibly huge deposits of oil and gas in the waters around Greenland, the Greenlandic government was very active internationally in promoting the hydrocarbon potential in their region.

The aim was to attract companies that could supplement NUNAOIL, the national oil company of Greenland, with capital and experience. While initially they were met with reluctance and scepticism from multinational energy companies, who perceived the investment to be too high of a risk, this changed with the licensing rounds in 2006.

2012 Greenland's minerals loom in China-Denmark ties

London Mining, a firm backed by Chinese steelmakers, is seeking permission to construct an iron ore mine northeast of Nuuk at a cost of $2.35 billion that would be the biggest industrial development in Greenland if sanctioned.

Martin Breum, author of a book on Denmark's role in the Arctic and Greenland's oil possibilities, said the iron ore project - though potentially hugely important to Greenland - was not what worried Western governments, industries and intelligence agencies.

"Potential Chinese control of the rare earth elements in Greenland is scary to a lot of governments in the Western world," Breum said, noting that rare earth elements were used in products from telephones, televisions and hybrid cars to cruise missiles and night-vision goggles for soldiers.

"Rare earth elements are of crucial importance to the industries of the western world," Breum said, adding that China's de facto monopoly on rare earth elements was intolerable to the West in the long term.

greenland falls victim to nominative determinism hundreds of years later after people foolishly thought it was an ironic marketing ploy as all of its natural resources become worth lots of green

It looks big on map

If Trump thinks there's even a chance he loses control of one house of congress in the mid-terms he's going to push HARD for this to happen before the election so whatever happens can be implemented in terms of congress allocating funds or signing bills to incorporate it.

The way Trump views everything and everyone around him are as winner/loser, master/slave, dom/sub type relationships. I think he genuinely believes the USA has fallen into the loser nation category hence "make america great again". Apparently his first term didnt fix that. Europe, especially the smaller nations in it, fall further still into the loser category because they rely on America for defense. It's been a long term gripe of Republicans that the USA contributes the most to NATO while Europe with a few exceptions doesn't even contribute 5% of their budget.

Taking Greenland means a few things: securing the future of the USA even when it won't have the fighting power it has now, pressuring the Euros to increase military spending and reduce social spending, and making Trump look important which he likes.