The US “Needs Greenland”, Says Trump
Donald Trump has set his sights on a US takeover of Greenland after capturing Nicolas Maduro and saying he would run Venezuela, telling reporters: “We do need Greenland, absolutely.” The Telegraph has more.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” the US President told the Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”.
He said officials in his administration would decide what happened to Greenland, which Mr Trump has claimed the US must annex for its security.
“We need it for defence,” he said of Greenland.
Responding to the latest threat from Mr Trump, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s Prime Minister, said: “That’s enough now.”
“No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation,” he wrote on Facebook late on Sunday. “We are open to dialogue. We are open to discussions. But this must happen through the proper channels and with respect for international law.”
Mette Frederiksen, the Danish Prime Minister, urged Mr Trump to “stop the threats”, adding that Greenland is “not for sale”.
“The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom,” she said, pointing out that Denmark already has a defence agreement with America, which gives it access to Greenland, and that Copenhagen had boosted its investment in the Arctic region’s security.
“I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale,” she added.
Earlier, Mr Nielsen rebuked the Trump administration, calling it “disrespectful” and saying that the territory was “not for sale”.
He was referring to an image posted on social media by Katie Miller, the wife of Mr Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, showing the map of Greenland painted with the US flag and captioned “SOON”.
Ulf Kirtsersson, the Prime Minister of Sweden, said on X: “It’s only Denmark and Greenland that have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighbouring country.”
The mission to capture Maduro has triggered concerns about further US military operations in the Western hemisphere, which the Trump administration views as part of America’s sphere of influence.
A US invasion of Greenland is deemed unlikely by analysts who point out that the Danish territory is a part of the Nato alliance along with the United States.
However, the renewed threats are likely to alarm European leaders as the American split with the continent grows.
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Am I alone in seeing a megalomaniacal tendency in Trump’s behaviour, or is he simply wanting to compensate for his failure in Ukraine.
Maybe even he realised that it would be a mistake to send the helicopters into Moscow and “arrest” Putin for war crimes or whatever Trumped(sic)-up charge his people could come up with.
It is no secret that the aim of Communism is world domination. That is megalomania. Trump obviously recognises this threat while we accommodate a Chinese “mission” on square miles of central London. Choose your side.
Choose your
sidedictator.As long as Trump complies with election procedures he is not a dictator. There are plenty of dictatorships in the world and the USA is not one of them. That is no reason for it to be weak.
This ☝️
There is a vast difference between a magalomaniac and a dictator.
Magalomaniac 🤣
I see wot u did there
Trump and his neo-con advisors are out of control.
International law has been trampled on and could result in a free for all.
Might is not right.
Trump is pushing the world closer to nuclear Armageddon.
‘You assert ‘International law has been trampled on.’ Perhaps no bad thing? From another article here today—- “International law is neither truthfully international nor genuinely law.” I am minded to misuse the Hans Johst, Schlargeter quote: “When I hear the term International Law, I reach for my Browning.”
The USA is the Great Satan. A. Khomeini, 1979.
Iran very much on the list since WW2. . Difficult to say whether it’s the US or Israel been leading on that one.
And the neocons have China on the agenda, despite having pushed Russia and China ever closer.
And this is the problem we have with Trump. He does something not unreasonable (at a small push right minded people can support the Venezuelan adventure) and then undermines himself by making an insane statement. Greenland is part of Denmark, so fully part of NATO, so totally available to the USA for defence against Russia or China. If he needs to turn it into a fortress he can, without the need for annexation. Okay, he says he is not interested in Arctic mineral rights, on which there is a UN embargo anyway, but what other reason is there for wanting ownership of the landmass?
It does seem rather nutty and does them no favours in the eyes of the public – maybe they don’t give a s***?
It does indeed seem nutty, until you see The Club of Rome 1975 World Region Map below…
See The Club of Rome’s 1975 “Mankind at the Turning Point”, in which the world map shows the Ten World Regions they propose (see map below). The USA there includes the USA, Canada & Greenland.
No map below … and, quick search, but can’t find it? Got a link?
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2026/01/05/the-us-needs-greenland-says-trump/#comment-1073262
Aren’t they already there, operationally, when required? Like being here at ex-RAF Fairford from time to time, such as the troubles in Kuwait, or Iraq in recent times.
Obviously Trump is coming across as a thug and a bully.
But, that said, why does Denmark own Greenland? I’m pretty sure international law had nothing to do with it. At some point in the past they just took it. So maybe the US will come along and take it from them. Or maybe they’ll convince the Greenlanders to join the US. Or maybe it’s all one big troll.
One thing is for sure, Trump sure knows how to put on a reality show.
The kingdom of Denmark is a bit like Great Britain in that it the king of Denmark is the head of the state and that there’s a central parliament for all if it and devolved administrations for the Faroe island and Greenland, just with more powers devolved for them. Trump cannot just take Greenland except by a military invasion followed by an annexation. That the USA would start an offensive war against a NATO member state would certainly be an unprecendeted action, although obviously theoretically possible.
It would certainly be interesting to see what other NATO nations leapt to Greenlands defence….
In this case, the USA could only hope for none because it would just have gone rogue against a member of a mutal defense pact whose armies etc have a numerical superiority of about 2:1 over it and that’s a recipe for losing a war. The Germans effectively lost WWI because of a much smaller numerical disadvantage when compared to their enemies.
Not sure that 2:1 advantage would trouble the US operating as a single, unified force…
Historical precedents strongly suggest that. Multi-national coalitions have largely successfully fought against a single, unified German force based on much smaller numerical advantages. Apart from that, nothing’s sure about the future until it has happened.
Trolls are Norwegian
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Yes, but trolls are part of Scandinavian legends in general. I remember a news report years ago saying that an international road-building project in a remote area of Iceland was suddenly halted by the Icelandic road workers, who absolutely refused to budge any further, because they said the small hill they were supposed to cut through was occupied by Trolls, who must be treated with all due respect.
The exasperated company officials were finally forced to re-route the road around the small hill, leaving a “respectful” distance between the road and the Trolls’ domain.
Quite right, too!
After you arguing with an angry Troll.
Starmer was interviewed by GB News today and said that only Denmark could decide whether its sovereign territory could be taken over by the US. This was international law, which he follows all the time, as when he gave the Chagos islands to a corrupt country thousands of miles away and he ignored the Chagos islanders. This time he is acting to form and ignoring the Greenland native people who were there before the Vikings colonised it. Some polls indicated that they would prefer to be with the US if they were paid more.
Unless of course it is when he wishes to compensate and offer apologies to natives or descendants of the British colonies.
It does seem to come down to the sheer complacency and sloppy half-hearted defence of post-war western Europe, smug in its belief in some imaginary international law, while the real peace-keeping always relies on Uncle Sam. Meanwhile the UK can’t even control its borders with national law.
President Trump is simply pointing out, once again, in a different way, the impotence of so many Western European countries.
Denmark can contribute two battalions to the defence of Greenland. Britain could probably contribute three; so just about one infantry brigade, British and Danish forces combined: pathetic.
Poland is threatened by Russia. What do they have? An Army Corps of five armoured divisions comprising 1200 tanks; Britain?: two tank regiments of about 50 tanks each.
If Britain and Denmark will not protect Greenland, Uncle Sam will have to do it…but that can only happen if it is U.S. territory.
The alternative is for Britain and Denmark to get real about defence…absolutely no sign whatsoever of that happening in either country.
Agree
With the army on war footing, Denmark has more soldiers per 100,000 members of the population than the USA (9.9 vs 6.2).
Based in Bornholmington on Sea commanded by Kapitan Mohnoerin
It makes much more sense for the US to ‘have’ Greenland than it does for Denmark to. What’s not to like about, say, half a million each to the c50K inhabitants – not a little but affordable for the US; joint mineral and exploration rights for US/Denmark/Greenland; full self determination for Greenland regarding immigration (excepting military staff and others), culture, language etc., in effect it would not be part of the US but a territory like the Marshall islands.
Not sure he really wants Canada though. Unless you heavily gerrymander the provinces then a Democratic majority is virtually guaranteed.
He does want Canada, though, according to The Club of Rome 1975 World Map below…
So make it the 51st state? (I think that’s the right number still)
The reality is that only a small sliver of the world’s population shares truly liberal democratic values. An even smaller sliver have libertarian/critical rationalist leanings – “we” only really hold power in a few states in the US – broadly the Republican ones. Maybe 200m people or so globally hold values similar to ours, out of 7bn or so.
Unfortunate as it is, we are threatened by both the illiberal statists at home, as well as the terrifying tech dictatorships of China and Russia, not to mention population pressures from the global south.
Trump is the only important leader to push back against these forces (in the case of Russia; unsuccessfully so far) and I wish him well.
It’s a dark reality, but keeping our vision of liberty alive will require a whole lot of disruption globally. Or Elon can take us to Mars.
How can Greenland have survived this long after leaving the Evil Empire of Europe after Greenexit in 1985?
Golf courses don’t work too well in the snow. Lot of lost balls.
Yes, meant to be playing today but one of my golfing partners suggested we went tobogganing down the hill on the 17th instead!
Wise advice
I know from personal experience that even those fluorescent pink, orange, yellow balls are impossible to find. Even when there’s no snow.
All part of The Club of Rome plan for 10 World Kingdoms, published in The Club of Rome’s 1975 “Mankind at the Turning Point”:
10 Kingdoms – The Abolition of Sovereignty ⋆ Discerning the World
Trump’s a businessman – a deal-maker. He’s starting a negotiation process with Greenland/Denmark.
The USA bought Alaska, it didn’t seize it.
Please Mr President us next