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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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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