
Greenland must be good for something.
It’s 50 times bigger than regular Denmark, so they need it to maintain a significant footprint on the globe. If the US owns Greenland, Canada feels claustrophobic, but otherwise, who cares?
Whatever resources or strategic advantages there are in Greenland, the US can access with a long-term lease. The US maintains Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, and we don’t even like them. If an American thinks about Denmark, we think of those butter cookies in the blue cookie tin or we are thinking about the Netherlands by mistake.
Trump has a Greenland strategy that isn’t obvious, but we don’t need to be concerned.
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