(January 22, 2026 at 8:05 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: And still: Why does anyone want to take such a land?
There's good strategic reasons for it. Given that global warming is reducing the ice-pack and making the Arctic Ocean a potentially viable trade route (look up Great Circle routing for why), controlling the area makes some sense.
The problem I have as an American is that Trump pursuing this avenue for power-projection -- to wit, introducing fractures into NATO relationships -- is entirely unneccesary. We've had a long-standing treaty with Denmark that essentially allows us to build what we want where we want it. This Administration could gain the exact same benefits by a 75-year-old treaty that it is trying to gain by breaking up a 77-year-old alliance.
NATO already controls about 60% of Arctic shoreline. America going after Greenland at the expense of NATO relations doesn't change that number at all. It's a gratuitous own-goal. What might motivate Trump to make such a damaging decision?
