Thank you for the critical post.

Respectfully, this outcome (if it's being accurately described) seems liable to morph into a version of a Gitmo-in-hostile-Cuba situation and I would chalk it up as another Trump loss that gets bright-sided/silver-lining-ed/five-D-chess-ed/that-was-his-secret-goal-all-along-ed.

LOL. I feel you.

Sniffing Trump's farts aside - while I was rah rah about the potential of the "takeover", and while I acknowledge the reality of the real world situation that you summed up adeptly....

Europe is a freaking joke. The leaders there are basically programmed like robots to think in terms of decline, supplication, and making their citizens solidly and forcefully take it up the ass. Trump is positioning to expand American influence throughout the western hemisphere ... while native Europeans are begging Muslims on their knees to pretty please stop raping their daughters. Europe has been for decades in a position of demure, polite acceptance and embrace of decline. Trump's attempting to better the US. The loser wimps of the EU are having their brains melt as a result.

Trump's rhetoric pushed several NATO countries to mobilize actual troops to Greenland. And now Europeans are saying that they don't need the US, US should bugger off, etc. This turns out to have been an awesome way to distance the US from responsibility for the retarded shit that most of the NATO alliance backs, such as continued Ukraine military and financial support. We can titrate off some of our support because after all we're horrible now.

If Trump was being honest ... he got what we needed - access to potential natural resources. Which are almost impossible to extract being located 1+ mile under ice. Maybe he just wanted more real estate for more military bases.

At least he didn't pay a trillion dollars to buy and take over an indigenous welfare society.

Trump did a masterful job of shaking up a continent of weakling fence sitting bureaucrats with their pinkies in the air. The weakness of the EU does kind of weigh down the US... the liberal elites want the US to turn to shit just like the EU. Trump made them wake the f*** up.

I can see a near-future independent Greenland voting in non-Danish, non-Inuit officials or with Inuit/Dane figureheads or bribe-recipients who enact something like an "open door policy" and cut deals with the US's geopolitical enemies that could run the spectrum from resource-extraction (fishing, minerals) with covert/denied military activity all the way to public/open non-US, non-EU military bases.

Perhaps Trump was thinking exactly this. That Greenland was too much of a wild card, an unstable entity, with a poorly educated low economic value population.

Distraction? Probably. From Epstein, from the awful mess in Snowgadishu, etc.