Ein gefährliches Spiel in der Arktis: Trumps Forderungen könnten Fortschritte bei der Verteidigung der Alliierten zum Scheitern bringen

>(In case of an American attack…) Danish forces were given instructions to destroy airport runways and open fire at invading forces in the event of an attack.

Many people don’t seem to have processed just how big Greenland is: 836,000 square miles — more than three times larger than Texas. U.S. attack Greenland? Invade the tiny capital Nuuk on the southwest of the island? This capital has only 75 miles of road and three stoplights. The 57,000 locals, who mostly live nearby, primarily make their living fishing, raising sheep and getting checks from Denmark.

No, the U.S. will simply land elsewhere on this vast island, perhaps first expanding Pituffik Space Base, 930 miles from Nuuk. No roads between the two for the Danes and Greenlanders to send tanks to roust the Americans. /s

Pituffik Space Base and new bases further north will help the U.S. to deter against Chinese and Russian incursion. Notably, significant amounts of the far north are ice-free. More will come: the island’s ice sheet is retreating by the year. 2025: Radio Free Europe: *As Russia and China Step Up Arctic Presence, Greenland Grows In Importance*.

Neither the local Greenlanders nor the tiny nation of Denmark 1,800 miles away is remotely able to do anything to discomfit Chinese and Russian incursions. And NATO? They can barely deter Russian aggression on the continent: Atlantic Council two months ago: *Russia threatens Europe as Ukraine escalates strikes on Putin’s oil industry*