Anand unterstützt die Souveränität Grönlands, während Washington erneut über die Annexion von Territorium spricht – thestar.com
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/anand-backs-greenlands-sovereignty-as-washington-again-talks-of-annexing-territory/article_22ffb304-8c52-5f6c-8ea7-2e22c98bc8fc.html
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What’s so crazy is that because Trump and their admin floods the zone with so many outrageous acts, everything is blunted. It’s extremely frustrating that if a Democratic president or admin did even one of the many dozens of egregiously corrupt and antagonistic things Trump does, the media would not let it pass by unchallenged for one single minute. This is truly dangerous. These types of comments and acts are becoming normalized and everyone is getting numb to it. The American President just threatened to annex by force the territory of an ally. It’s insane. Why isn’t anyone saying this is insane!?
They’re not joking and it’s also not that weird.
Some background might help.
First I think someone in the admin, quite possibly Trump personally, has this treaty stuck in his brain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indies (Denmark used to have other possessions in the Americas and the US bought them; it’s why they have the US Virgin Islands. It’s the most recent expansion of US territory… I think. Aside from WW II annexations?)
Second: Look at a [world map centred on the arctic](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Azimuthal_equidistant_projection_SW.jpg).
It’s not out of the way. Greenland is at the centre of the world. It’s approximately equidistant for a strike on Moscow, London, Beijing, Tehran or even Delhi. If we exclude American overseas bases in Europe and the Middle East, it’s the closest American projection of force gets to much of Eurasia.
The US [built Thule base in Greenland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base) in 1950 – 1952, in total secret, without informing Denmark; the base was discovered by accident by a French arctic explorer and his Inuk guide on their way back from an expedition to the geomagnetic pole in 1951. If they hadn’t discovered it who knows how long it would have stayed secret!
I believe many on the American right, including some of those in the administration, have a highly pessimistic view of American power and capabilities. They view this as the century of American retreat from its maximum extent of projection. Long-term decline. Their naval power relative to China is in decline. Their economic power relative to China is in decline. They fear loss of control of the world oceans and air superiority over the oceans. They fear being rolled back to North America. Continent-wide bunker mentality. Even if they aren’t cut off from the ocean with Chinese naval superiority in the 2030s or 2040s, Europe and the Middle Eastern allies are unreliable from a US perspective, and so ongoing access to US airbases and power projection via those countries is uncertain.
In that light, Greenland makes even more sense. If you are playing this game of Risk as the Americans, you would really want Greenland. They’re quite serious.
It’s encouraging to see the Canadian government publicly backing Denmark this time. That didn’t seem to happen at all in the initial round of sabre-rattling. Our allies won’t back us if they don’t see us supporting them.
The United States is currently engaged in outright murder and piracy in the Caribbean, and nobody is prepared to stand in their way.
Almost four years into the invasion of Ukraine and the Europeans still can’t get their shit together to deal with Russian war-mongering.
Who, pray tell, is going to come to Denmark’s aid?
Heck, I expect Carney would probably take the „pragmatic“ approach and dispatch a cruiser to deliver coffee and Timbits to Pituffik Space Base as a peace offering.