This is an excellent idea:
I don’t know who can possibly think it’s a bad idea and why. I especially don’t understand people who agree that Russia is an enormous threat to world peace and hates the US but are opposed to this security move. For years, they were repeating that we need to do something about Russia. Finally, Russia is being kicked in the teeth, and they are still unhappy.
Alaska was acquired, and it turned out great. I’m not seeing any downside at all to acquiring Greenland. People are being defeatist for no reason.
I also have to mention that the post-WW2 world order fell apart in 2014. People who are hand-wringing about it in 2026, like they only just noticed, sound either clueless and dishonest. Russians are sending drones to one European airport after another. It is conducting aggressive sabotage in most European countries. The authorities of those countries know that, say it openly and… do absolutely nothing. Europe has been funding Putin’s war against itself with oil and gas purchases for 12 years. This is the Europe to which we are supposed to leave our security. Nah, thanks, doesn’t look great.
Only an absolute moron refuses to see that Russia is preparing to do to the US what it’s been doing to Europe. Testing the waters first and then being more and more aggressive is the strategy. If there’s a plan in place to prevent it other than the Greenland Purchase, let’s hear it. There was over a decade to unveil it.
It’s very annoying that everybody has a long-term strategy except the West. We are supposed to be sitting there, feeling guilty for existing and not developing a plan at all.
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We should definitely work with the Danes on acquiring that territory. But should definitely not take it by force, that would put us in the same place as Russia and permanently alienate Europe and others.
Let’s see what happens.
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There is no way the Danes will ever agree. So much for all this this talk of nationalism and borders on this blog.
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Please concentrate. Europe gave up nationalism and borders with the establishment of the EU. Or is EU a nation?
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Looked it up on purpose. The percentage of foreign-born population in Denmark was 3% in 1980 and 16.3% in 2025.
Let’s talk some more about nationalism and borders.
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“I don’t know who can possibly think it’s a bad idea and why”
I don’t know why it’s supposed to a good idea….
The US can already build as many military bases as it wants.
Mining possibilities are not cost effective at present.
There’s no indication the people there want to be bought by the US.
They people there already have a centuries long relationship with Denmark which has had its ups and downs but there’s no clear evidence that either side wants to break things off.
Denmark has been a reliable ally to the US for decades.
It might possibly be a good idea if the other side thought so and was willing, but as it is, it looks like a plan to inflate Trump’s tiny widdle ego by buying an island that isn’t nearly as big as it looks like on the Mercator projection.
What am I missing?
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The US has been building military bases around Europe for 80 years. It clearly brought zero results. Nobody can do anything with the Russian threat. It only gets worse every day.
If there’s an alternative plan, what is it? Anybody who had it could have revealed it a long time ago. But people say on the one hand that the Russian propaganda has captured entire political parties in Europe but then on the other hand we should trust Europe to defend us from Russia. Well, it clearly didn’t defend Ukraine. It’s not defending itself much.
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“If there’s an alternative plan, what is it? “
But what is buying Greenland supposed to accomplish? What will it do that the US can’t already do?
My alternative plan involves stepping on russian toes, including deporting all russian citizens who don’t want to give up said citizenship and subject themselves to scrutiny before being allowed to stay in any other country. Confiscate russian resources. Arm Ukraine appropriately, lose the fear of ‘escalation’… etc
Whenever the west gets in russia’s face they back down, it’s when the west tries to treat it like a normal country that it pulls russian crap…
Trump seems to have given up everything except chasing business deals which will never pan out…
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I am afraid occupying Greenland will not impress Putin enough. Thus, taking your argumant to the logical end, the US must occupy all of its NATO allies.
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It’s not just my argument. It’s the NATO’s argument. They are refusing to defend themselves. This might mean that they are either expecting to be defended by the US while they pout or are fine with being taken over by Russia.
Take Spain. A complete refusal to invest into the NATO. Extreme hostility to Ukraine. And to the US. And this is right after the constitutional crisis that almost split Spain apart and was entirely funded by Russia. And after the real estate collapse of 2009 where Russian mobsters were implicated to an extraordinary degree.
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I think many western people my age (40) and younger don’t really have a fear of Russia. How do you explain to them (us?) that Russia is bad and being occupied by Russia would make our lives worse? Not rhetorical question. I just don’t have an answer.
In social circles it’s a conundrum for me because If I say something bad about Russia/Russians/Russian culture, if people believe me, the most likely consequence to me would be that people decide not to like/trust/associate with me because I’m “Russian” (ex-soviet russian speaker).
-YZ
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This is a very interesting question. I am also a Russian speaker, although I identify with my country of birth which is not Russia. It was not my experience that people stop interacting with me because I am a Russian speaker very critical of Russia.
and, look, if you cannot explain, despite knowing Russia first hand, what is wrong with Russia and why one should be afraid of it… then you are just not an appopriate person to explain it and perhaps Europeans should indeed be cautiuous with you.
I was actually baffled by what you said and I am wondering if you are channeling the sentiments of your European acquaninances or your own… I kind of understand people who believe that Russia will only take the FSU but not Western Europe including Spain. I understand but I disagree. But you took it several steps further, questioning why one should be affraid of the Russian occupation.
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Occupied by Russia means Russian soldiers go door to door and rape every family there, including infants and old people. Then they shoot everybody in the head and move to the next house down the street.
I hope this answered your question.
What do people think military occupation means? “Vibes, papers,essays”? Your children get raped in front of you and you get tortured for months is what it means.
But yes, this is precisely what the young generation of Germans said on the most recent survey. “We prefer to be conquered by Russia than go to war.”
Such valuable allies. What will we do without them?
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“Take Spain”
You take it…. it’s a hot mess right now. Denmark is a very different kettle of fish. Why alienate them to get…. what the US could get right now?
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May I remind you that Putin justified attacking Ukraine by “security considerations” (NATO approaching Russian borders)?
Would it be OK for Putin to buy Ukraine if he offered a good price?
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Russia did buy Ukraine. The entire leadership of the Ukrainian secret service were Russian citizens. There was no border. I’d still be living there if I saw anything other than a complete anti-nationalist sellout by almost the entirety of Ukrainians.
And guess what? Russia still started bombing. Because it’s not about what anybody says. It’s about the fact that Russia will continue being aggressive in perpetuity. In 100, in 200 years, people will be sitting here, talking about who else Russia is bombing.
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My questiuons were rhetorical, Clarissa. I keep pushing the opinion that Trump (and his supporters) and Putin (and his supporters) are very much alike. Same way of thinking.
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Trump just threatened sanctions if they don’t let him have Greenland. This is just ridiculous now. This is transactional diplomacy without any care for long term consequences and planning.
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Dear Clarissa, you really should explain to readers of this blog the concept of Russkiy Mir.
Thank you.
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“should explain to readers of this blog the concept of Russkiy Mir”
I know about that all too well…. but…. I still haven’t heard of one thing the US can do if it owns Greenland (against the will of the majority) that it can’t do now.
That’s all I want to know: Why alienate a reliable ally? For what?
To me, it seems like flop sweat. Trump is floundering in terms of domestic policy and he thinks making the US bigger will counteract that…
If anything I’m prone to thinking this is Trump appeasing russia by destroying NATO…
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Trump has a point that without NATO, and by extension the USA, Denmark just cannot defend Greenland from China or Russia, so in a way USA is indirectly subsidizing their ownership of this land.
However, like you said USA can get just about any concessions right now to put as my troops or do as it wishes militarily in Greenland. So it really seems like such a dim view of the world where the USA just cannot fathom helping what was once a steadfast ally. It just tells me Trump doesn’t give a shit at all about allies, NATO, or anything like that. Which is troubling because in times of trouble it does count to have allies, and to me it’s a shame that he is so callously trying to throw this all away. I like Europeans even if I disagree on a lot of things and I really want to remain allies with them; Trump trying to destroy this relation for almost nothing is really troubling.
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You saw Carney, right? Slobbering all over Xi. They are ideological twins. Tomorrow, we’ll elect our own Carney. We will, won’t we? It goes in waves. If at least we have an additional stretch of land between us and these bastards, that’s better than nothing.
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Actions should never have consequences. We’re allowed to use tariffs and economic pressure, but everyone else has to politely smile, absorb the damage, and never adjust their behavior, never form new allowances. Denmark joined the war in Iraq, got their people killed disproportionately, spied on neighboring countries for US, did everything the US told them to do. And look where it got them.
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alliances lol
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Trump practically handed Carney his win in the election. I have no idea why Carney, of all people, should be upset with Trump. He’d be “Carney who?” today without Trump’s efforts.
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You haven’t responded to anything I said. We impose tariffs and other countries react to them. What seems to be the problem? Maybe the trump administration should have thought of second-order effects of their policies. He’s tariffing the entire world! Surely that would result in some reorganization in international relations, no?
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The countries react to the tariffs and we react to their reaction. If Canada wants to bring China to our doorstep, we shouldn’t sit there, waiting for it to happen, should we?
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I actually did not mind Canada following the US in the past. But this only works when the stronger ally continues respecting the weaker one. The respect is either mutual, or there is non at all. Or it is as useful as unrequited love… The moment respect is no longer there, the weaker ally should find some balance between different centers of power. Am I concerned about Chinese influence in Canada? Sure. But I am also concerned about US influence in Canada. Ideally, the job of the Canadian government is to make those influences (and other external influences – Russia, Israel, India, etc, no exceptions) cancel each other.
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This is entirely reasonable.
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I could explain that concept, but my version of that explanation will make you very unhappy because I will start making parallels between Putinoid version of Russky Mir and what Trump is doing.
But I have done enough provocative things for today so I’ll just join you in asking Clarissa to explain it.
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There is no bigger enemy of europe than america.
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Germany has committed national suicide by giving up cheap energy which was the backbone of their industrial growth, to align with US geopolitical priorities. That’s still not enough for you. They should be shat upon by americans at every opportunity. Yeah, nick fuentes is entertaining but this is such an ugly sentiment, this hatred of europe. When we know many of their problems directly result from US influence. They have never been independent post-WWII, and I’m glad Trump is doing whatever he can to make europeans realize that US is not an ally in any meaningful sense.
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Also, you can’t make the argument that Ukraine is winning, Russia is losing AND then claim that europe is in existential danger of being conquered by Russia. If Russia can’t inflict defeat on a single country what hope does it have of conquering an entire continent?
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Unfortunately, Ukraine is not winning anymore. It’s really bad right now. The worst ever. ☹️☹️
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Before anybody points it out, yes, of course, my current resentment against Europe is about this. I recognize it honestly.
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I’m tired of this moronic and ugly argument that America foots the bill for NATO and Europe should be grateful for this charity. It was always in US interests.
It locked europe into US military systems, intelligence, and nuclear protection, and created long-term leverage for america.
It kept europe from becoming an independent military rival with its own great-power ambitions.
It guaranteed stable markets for US exports and investment after WWII.
It let the US shape global rules (IMF, World Bank, etc.) according to their own interests with europe practically forced to toe the line.
Tons of that “defense spending” goes straight to US arms manufacturers anyway.
European bases are used for US operations in the middle east, northern africa, and eastern europe.
America gets a LOT more out of NATO than it has invested.
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Do you support sending American boys to die in Lithuania when Russia invades it? Because that’s what the NATO is.
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