A massive increase in defense spending is set to hit Greenland in a move that would allow the Artic territory to fortify its military’s strength.
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After Trump’s comment, if I was the Greenland PM, I would order Pituffik Space Base closed immediately. It’s not safe to keep US military personnel on Greenland soil anymore.
I’m not fully sure the PM of Greenland even gets to decide on something like that as it is an autonomous region of Denmark, while autonomous it is still a colonial region of a European country that is in NATO, Trump annexing them would only hurt their people, but don’t be mistaken it is not a sovereign country currently, most of it’s diplomatic relations take place in Copenhagen
actually, this makes agent orange’s comments about Greenland make more sense now. Where is one of the US’ closest early warning systems to Russia? PSB. How do you increase the liklihood that that station gets shut down or at least make it harder to re-supply/support? Get the operating nation and hosting nation to sever ties…
That was my first thought. But that is just what putin wants, and probably why he told the useful idiot to say this.