Trump has suffered a lot of scrutiny over his interest in Greenland. The continual screams that Trump is Hitler pervade the media and within the DNC as he pursues the fledgling and largely unpopulated land mass. But Trump is no different than President Harry Truman offering Denmark a $100 million in gold to buy Greenland. Simply put, Greenland is a strategic area for a variety of reasons. Those reasons are that they are right next door to the US, making it an ideal outpost for enemy combatants if any were to arise. In fact, there was a fear was that Nazis could use Greenland as a steppingstone to America. The Germans had already established small meteorological bases on the island’s east coast and relayed information for battles in Europe. American troops eventually ousted them and established more than a dozen bases there with thousands of troops, landing strips and other military facilities. And there is the natural resources of Greenland that either the US exploits, or other world powers will exploit, world powers that may be adversarial to the US.
Trump is no different than previous Presidents who bought Alaska from Russia, and imagine if that deal had not been negotiated, with Russia later becoming the number one adversary of the US globally. And imagine Russia exploiting all their natural resources, with very little care about the environmental consequences like the US dutifully does.
And it is the very same reason that Trump did what he did in Venezuela, stopping the Chinese from taking most of their oil. Trump is simply the modern-day example of the Monroe Doctrine in action, which is to secure land and resources from hostile powers within the US sphere of geopolitical influence. It is also why JFK imposed a barricade around Cuba as Russia planted nukes on the island as well.
Call it imperialism, call it Nazism, call it whatever you wish. But China does the same damn thing as they prop up North Korea, as they don't want the US sphere of influence anywhere near their country for strategic reasons. And it is the same reason Putin took the Ukraine.
But Europe should be the last to cry about Trump's interest in Greenland, because Europe has allowed the US over the years to spend trillions and trillions of dollars on their military to keep Europe safe and free from Communist Russia, while they themselves spend their money on social programs instead of the endeavor to defend themselves. This has led to massive debt in the US, debt that Europe could care less about as they continue to insist that the US protects them internationally from despots, just like they begged Obama to take out Gaddafi for them. Europe loves the "free" socialistic military blanket of protection but want nothing to do with the US concern over the natural resources to do so and their concerns that adversaries may be able to plant themselves within the North American continent that could very well be deleterious to US power and survivability, nor do they care about the economic burden of providing such a defense at the expense of the lavish social programs Europe enjoys.
Besides, Orange Man bad.
You don't have to agree with the said world view, but to pretend Trump is this off the wall insane dictator in the US for the first time in US history, as he espouses and seeks to continue policy in the US that was created long before he was even born, is infantile
It's time to grow the hell up!!
via Reuters
Greenland is not for sale.
