Stand Strong, Greenland!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The United States has no strategic or military need to "own" Greenland.  Doing so would not only be an additional indignity for the already marginalized Greenlanders to bear, it would also serve as yet another unnecessary drain on our nation's economy.  The United States has operated a major air base in Greenland for the past seventy-five years, and a good relationship has long existed between American personnel there and the local populace, many of whom work at the base or have business interests with the American installation.  That base, on the northwest coast of the island, was formerly called "Thule Air Base" when it was run by the US Air Force, and now it is under the control of the US Space Command and is known as "Pituffik Space Base."

As a member of NATO, the United States has ready access to any protections that Greenland would afford.  Having our name on the island's title is simply a Trump vanity, one we cannot afford.  (If we can't afford food, shelter, and health care for all of our citizens, we damned sure can't afford to be buying or seizing other nations and assuming responsibility for their people.)

There was no friction between the United Staters and Greenland - or its protectorate nation, Denmark - until Donald Trump saw it on a flat map of the world (a Mercator projection) which, because of its proximity to the North Pole, makes the island nation look much larger than it actually is.  And it if was THAT big, and THAT vulnerable, Trump, the bully, had to have it!  (Check it out on a globe, Donbo!)

But Trump sees it as big, really big, a frozen wasteland just waiting  for a modern day Napoleon, like himself, to march in, plant a flag, and declare it his.  Trump blathers on about security, but taking Greenland by force will remove us from NATO, and perhaps even result in the destruction of NATO, both of which would decrease our security on the world stage - but would be of great benefit to Trump's good friend, Putin.

Yesterday top government officials from Denmark an Greenland met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President Vance at the White House to discuss the situation, but after they left Trump was again grinding out his spiel about how the United States must have Greenland.  Trump, the real estate mogul, does not want to rent it, or have a lease - he wants to OWN it.  To have Greenland in his presidential portfolio.  Something that will resonate in the history books like the Louisiana Purchase.

(There is so much that our country needs, that our citizens deserve, but Donald John Trump wants his presidential legacy to be the acquisition of real estate.  Cold, hard, barren real estate that will be of no direct benefit to Americans, but looks damned big on a map!)

Today the news is focused on a Danish-led field exercise (war game) called "Operation Arctic Endurance" which will be held this month in Greenland.  Participants will be NATO members including Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kigndom.  It is being described as "a symbolic and practical show of NATO commitment to a NATO member's territory."  The United States would be, one must assume, the "symbolic" enemy of Greenland and NATO in that scenario.

Donald Trump has placed us in that awkward and shameful position - just to glorify himself!