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Greenland Analysis - Eliminating an "attractive nuisance" (Public Board)

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Thursday, January 15, 2026, 18:59 (2 days ago)
edited by Cornpop Sutton, Thursday, January 15, 2026, 19:43

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.

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Greenland Analysis - Eliminating an "attractive nuisance"

by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Friday, January 16, 2026, 19:07 (1 day, 3 hours, 23 min. ago) @ Cornpop Sutton

We can go further.

You've already said Trump wants Greenland. This goes back to 2019, before Russia crossed the border into the Ukraine in 2022.

Trump also wants Russia, in the sense that he wants normalised relations. He wants Russia not to be the enemy, he wants trade etc. Or maybe just trade :) One of the things he needs in order to get Russia is to end hostilities in Ukraine, get the whole thing sorted out and the final situation accepted internationally. Big job but he's working on it. The pharisees running the UK, Germany, France and Italy have sabotaged Trump's every attempt. They want Russia for themselves, all those wonderful resources inside Russian territory. Starmer, Merz, Macron and Meloni have been demonising Putin the entire time. (Ironic, really.) They've done this safe in the knowledge, and presumably deliberately leveraging this knowledge, that they have the US to defend them should Russia attack. War between Europe and Russia would suit the pharisees because it would strengthen their weakening grip on power in Europe plus it would open opportunities to get into Russia and seize resources. This wet dream has been going on for yonks. Recall Mackinder's 1904 heartland theory.

You've already said a military acquisition of Greenland by the US would remove the US from NATO.

Just in the last week, Merz, Macron and Meloni have said they need to start talking to Putin(!). Recall that Trump has been saying both that he could buy Greenland and that he could take Greenland by force. The pharisees have heard the second part and, skipping over the bits you've already said, they've realised they need Russia onside. It's hilarious to watch although tragic for every person who has been killed or maimed due to the pharisees' war obsession.

So Trump wants Greenland and Russia, for two different sets of reasons. I think he has woken up to the fact that he can use Greenland to get Russia.

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Greenland Analysis - Eliminating an "attractive nuisance"

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Friday, January 16, 2026, 21:18 (1 day, 1 hours, 11 min. ago) @ ,ndo

^ Great stuff.

Basically to extend your thesis, Trump is using Greenland acquisition talk as a gigantic political splitting wedge. BRILLIANT. He's messing up the current international order and expectations of western powers by just memeing without even doing anything. And it's completely riskless.

Trump is like someone who jiggles something on a machine in a shop to make it start working. Kind of.

I have one dispute with your overall comments...

The pharisees running the UK, Germany, France and Italy have sabotaged Trump's every attempt. They want Russia for themselves, all those wonderful resources inside Russian territory. Starmer, Merz, Macron and Meloni have been demonising Putin the entire time. (Ironic, really.)

The idea that these dickless autocrats even fantasize about making that kind of grab is utterly hilarious. All they're capable of doing effectively is shitting all over their own citizens.

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