Trump on Greenland: "It cannot go on the way it is. It's not gonna go on the way it is. I'll make a statement. It's not gonna happen. So they're going there, and it's purely friendship … people from Greenland are asking us to go there." pic.twitter.com/BdEEMSBOMS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025
Trump: "We are dealing with a lot of people from Greenland that would like to see something happen with respect to being properly protected and properly taken care of. They're calling us, we're not calling them." pic.twitter.com/Nx4pXrRixc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025
REP. JAMIE RASKIN ISSUES NEW WARNING: "They want to bring in Panama, Greenland, Canada – where Elon Musk incidentally was a citizen… and, uh, why? They believe this new consortium will allow a new Constitution to allow @ElonMusk to run for president."pic.twitter.com/bs8IGfmeHB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 24, 2025
jd vance: “denmark not doing its job, not being a good ally…if that means we need to take more territorial interest in greenland that is what president trump is going to do.” pic.twitter.com/sCpEwxIJRb
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 23, 2025
The Greenland Question is about who will control the 22nd century.
“Suddenly an ambitious vision of Canada’s future in the Arctic has emerged from an obscure network of institutions, think tanks, universities, and government bureaus. The most vocal proponent of the project has been Irvin Studin, a widely respected geopolitical scientist. Studin has outlined a vision that resembles speculative fiction. In particular, he has repeatedly called to move the Canadian capital from Ottawa to Whitehorse in order to place Canada “within Asia through the Arctic.” Whitehorse would become the Singapore of the North, a convenient meeting point where huge deals could be hammered out by mutually interested parties. Whitehorse is 8 hours away from St-Petersburg, 7 hours from D.C., and 8 hours from Beijing.
Just as vast fortunes were made in the Yukon gold rush 150 years ago — including the Trump family fortune — new fortunes will emerge from the Arctic. According to Studin, cities like Whitehorse will become the culinary, artistic, cultural and technological engines of the next two centuries. He calls for a settlement of 10 million inhabitants in the Canadian Arctic circle along with a further 20 million in the periarctic — a huge increase from the 140,000 residents it has today comparable – given the extremely inhospitable climatic conditions — to a project for settling Mars. …
The Arctic is the answer to the future of Canada’s relationship with the United States. A powerful, prosperous Canada, capable of defending and asserting itself, holding the ‘Northern flank’ of the United States, is a much more attractive vision to the emergent political order in America than the vestigial remnant of British North America.
The opening of the Northern frontier will create new opportunities for deepening the US-Canada relationship and ultimately lay the foundations of a new continental consciousness. The taming of the Arctic is an enormously-ambitious technical, political, and aesthetic challenge in which life will need to be reinvented from the ground up. Massive nuclear icebreakers will have to be built, entire cities will have to be dreamt up, ports and maritime installations will need to be erected, and wells will need to be dug deep into the Arctic ice. American capital, engineers, scientists and adventurers will have to be part of this Promethean effort. Here is the fork in the road.”
Denmark and Canada are incapable of meeting the Arctic challenge.
Trump’s vision of Canada becoming the 51st state and annexing Greenland is about America’s future in a warming Arctic which will unlock new trade routes and vast mineral and energy resources. The Arctic is thinly populated in our own times, but two centuries from now will look very different.
There is a logic to it for the long term. It’s not as whacky as some think.
Long term, the Yellowstone Supervolcano will destroy North America. It’s past due on its usual intervals.
And California was supposed to slide into the Pacific 50 years ago too…
I think it is a great idea. If we are able to pull it off, our descendants in the 22nd and 23rd centuries will be grateful to Trump. Greenland will be truly green then.
However, I do not think it is a workable idea. The only way to annex Greenland is via force against a NATO ally. This will break NATO (who cares?) to Putin’s delight, but white Gentile Western elites do not want to break NATO. It is their gendarmerie. And they are not bothered by the browning of the West because (as anyone who has visited Brazil knows) browns make better servants of the white elite than whites do.
“Vast mineral and energy resources” that will be completely controlled and exploited by the oligarchs who have direct access to the Fed’s money printers, of course. None of this empire-building will make the average US White wage-slave’s life any better.
To stop the Chinese, Russians, fire missiles deep into RF, pole shift?
This won’t happen. The US might not have running water in 30 years. They sure aren’t building a mega city in a place that cold, even with warming. The US is more likely to shrink in size over the next few decades
Mentioning “a warming arctic” implies you accept that climate change is happening. But aren’t the dangers of long term environmental degradation/damage to the entire planet of greater concern than any temporary strategic advantages? Who cares who has greater power in one’s house if we are burning down the house we live in?
The climate has always changed
The Gulf Coast has changed countless times across history. Human beings used to be able to walk from Scotland to Italy across what is now the English channel and from New Guinea to Tasmania
The climate has changed naturally to the same degree as what we’re staring down in the next few centuries, most recently the ending of the last Ice Age (same amount of temperature/sea level increase, but going from colder temps up to the modern norm), but the particular episode we’re seeing now is vastly more rapid. Anthro co2 emissions above the natural sequestration rate (fun fact: Jefferson Davis was America’s last net-zero President) are absolutely the bloody-hand-on-smoking-gun culprit, and it would cause all sorts of horrifically destabilizing problems with present-day agriculture if that wasn’t also heading out the window anyway (visit the Adair I-80 rest stop in Iowa if you want to see the real blackpill that most AGW discussion just acts as a smokescreen for). But there’s nothing to be done about that because dropping the modern oil economy down to “Net Zero” would put everyone on Earth at the living standard of Bangladesh, except for a few lucky Switzerlands who could maintain the high-dollar green tech the left fantasizes about, and the result would be billions dead or suffering anyway. If you want an extremely close image of the future and don’t mind some old-school leftie talking points, I recommend absolutely everyone everywhere read Julian Comstock: A Story Of 22nd Century America by Robert Charles Wilson. Steam dreadnoughts from the theocratic United States(+Canada) and the quasi-monarchist (D)EU fighting over the Northwest Passage is a key part of the conflict. It’s a comfy read.