Apparently Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark and is offering the residents of Greenland a huge sum of money (I assume payout to every resident of the island) in exchange.

Meanwhile Germany, Canada, Sweden and others are saber rattling and sending troops to support Denmark's claim on the island.

I have this take:

Greenland will become increasingly compelling as a natural resource hub simply because all of the accessible stuff in the temperate parts of the world are known and starting to be played out. Also it sits on the Northwest Passage which is becoming clearer of sea ice as warming progresses - which encourages Russia to perform more resource exploration and military operations in the Arctic off of Canada's northeastern coast.

Greenland is an attractive target for economic colonization by China and a beach head for Russia. Northern Europe is somewhat at risk being relatively close to Greenland. While at the same time, again, Denmark has no resources at the magnitude necessary to defend the island. Greenland is basically a magnet for the wrong type of interest.

Basically I'd term Greenland an "attractive nuisance", an attractor of bad influences, just as a swimming pool with no fence or barrier around the yard it's in is an attractive nuisance that is a liability for the homeowner.

The US should take Greenland, hopefully by purchase and not by force. If the US is to become an empire (already pretty much is) we need the natural resources that are just sitting there. And we will defend it much better than any other western power.

Also, use of force to acquire Greenland IMO is a bid to remove the US from NATO, which I also support. NATO will expel the US if we use force. Fine.

I'm fine with this. This isn't jingoistic megalomania. It makes perfect sense. Trump is expanding the sphere that the US controls. Above board rather than using the CIA and slimy proxy operations. And exiting NATO removes us from dealing with the Ukrainian issues.

Much better the US make a "hard" bid and acquire, than China making "soft" incursion with no legal transfer but instead projecting huge force into the Arctic.