MAGA BELIEVES TRUMP CONQUERED GREENLAND
During the United Nations meeting Tuesday, President Donald Trump
signed a deal with Denmark and Greenland that gave us pretty much what we already had.
Trump has been obsessed with
annexing Greenland, even threatening to take it by force. While he pretended it was about security, it was clearly about his grander Vladimir Putin-like ambitions to
expand the United States, likely
influenced by the way that the Mercator Projection map makes Greenland look much bigger than it really is.
“That’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success,” Trump
said in January. “Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.”
A boy holds a crossed out map of Greenland topped by a hairpiece symbolizing President Donald Trump ,during a protest against Trump’s policy toward Greenland on Jan. 17.AP
Well, brilliant dealmaker that he is, all he got was a signed document. Beyond that, there’s nothing more than what the United States already had.
At the height of the Cold War, the United States had
17 military installations in Greenland—today it has one.
This new agreement allows it to build two more, which is still far less than what the United States was once allowed to have. But for some reason, Trump felt compelled to brag about “building two very major military bases” during his U.N.
speech.
He gets very excited about things that have nothing to do with helping improve people’s lives.
The agreement blocks the ability of non-NATO countries from establishing a military presence in Greenland, which isn’t a thing that’s happening anyway.
It also requires Greenland to become a NATO member if it ever gets full independence from Denmark, which okay, cool? But it’s not a thing that can be guaranteed, as becoming a member of NATO requires approval from every other NATO member.
Still, given Trump’s hostility toward NATO, it’s a win for Denmark and Europe to force Trump into acknowledging the alliance as the key framework for Greenland’s security.
That’s how it was before. And now, thanks to this deal, that’s how it will be moving forward.
“After months of threatening our NATO Ally Denmark and disregarding the will of the Greenlandic people, President Trump has reached a ‘deal’ that essentially returns the U.S.-Greenland defense relationship to where it was before,” Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
said.
At least now Trump can shut the hell up about his Greenland obsession.