[Salon] Trump floats buying Greenland for U.S. amid Panama Canal dispute



It's "gettin' better all the time" for those who are with Trump and want to destroy Russia as a country, like those running around with their hair afire recently calling for the election of Trump so "he could finish the war he started," concealing that as a wish for peace to avert nuclear war. But when every piece of evidence available to anyone who looks, proves Trump in fact took a "Cold War" under Obama, and escalated it as Trump's War into a "Hot War," though on the lower end of the "Spectrum of Conflict," so far, one has to be incredibly stupid to not see what he was up to, or incredibly duplicitous. That Biden was who got caught by circumstance and timing when Russia's counter-attack was ready, does not relieve Trump of the guilt of starting the war, as I shared earlier.

Here's Trump's Strategy which anyone who ever played Risk as a kid, would immediately recognize as a strategy of global domination, and as Trump's template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)

For those of you unfamiliar with that game, perhaps former National Security government officials, intelligence officers, etc., who obviously didn't learn that in Spy School or they would recognize what Trump is up to, buy the game and get some kids to teach it to you so you can see what Trump is doing, instead of campaigning for him like I saw some do. 

I don't quote Marx often but I must here, except to reverse what he said, to fit it to Trump, to paraphrase: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy."

Trump's Plan is called an "encirclement strategy," as every kid who ever played Risk knows, and is how France lost at Dien Bien Phu, and Germany and Japan (eventually) in WW II, as the "noose was tightened." And as Russia had previous experience with under the Siege of Leningrad. But that's not too well known I guess as otherwise, everyone of Russian background or familiarity with Russia would immediately see what Trump is up to. And took to a far higher level than had Obama (not to defend Obama's "Pivot to Asia, which included Russia), as he sought to "tighten the noose" ever tighter with Greenland as a "Land Based War of Aggression Launch Platform." With Saint Petersburg within easy range of U.S. Intermediate Range Missiles, of the kind once controlled by the INF Treaty, Trump withdrew from. If I owned property in Saint Petersburg, I'd sell it now before Trump coerces Denmark into giving Greenland to him and he begins to prepare the missile launchers and airfields, drone swarms, etc., he will use to either coerce Russia to give up sovereignty, or to destroy Russia, with the "Greatest Military Ever": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSE0sNXwHuI


With Tulsi Gabbard as a Hindu far-right Modi extremist doing a deception campaign, which is belied by everything I've provided. 


Trump is playing real-life Risk, like a virtuoso, acting as a "Transactional President," in moving ever closer and tighter to Russian territory as he did in his first administration and as he's doing with Greenlans. It's harsh to say but we've been lied to, repeatedly here, by those who would have us believe that Trump wants "Peace." Unless they mean the "peace of the graveyard," which his self-admitted militarism (see YT) inevitably leads to, even if achieve a Pax Americana for a short while.

Here's the latest as another Peter Thiel Schmittian is added to the Trump administration:
BLUF: "President-elect Trump indicated he wants Greenland under U.S. control as he named PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as his pick for United States ambassador to Denmark on Sunday."

From Wikipedia: "In 2005, Howery and Thiel, along with fellow PayPal alumnus, Nosek, started Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, where he served as co-founder and partner. 

. . . 

"Howery engaged with Swedish officials on defense issues and military strategy, including pressing for increased interoperability of U.S. and Swedish military systems.[22][23] He also advocated for the longstanding U.S. goal of increased European defense spending; Sweden approved a 40% increase in defense spending over five years during Howery's tenure - the largest increase in more than 70 years.[24]"

Trump's incoming administration can correctly be called Peter Thiel's, with surveillant company Palantir and Founders Fund at the center of the ultra-militarist cluster Trump is forming around it as his own Gestapo/SS/Abwehr. 

Trump Reiterates He Wants to Buy Greenland for US Security

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

"Greenland is already crucial to American national defense, being home to a US air base and a radar station. The war in Ukraine has dramatically increased the territory’s military value to the US and NATO, given the island’s strategic location between the Arctic and the North Atlantic."

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/23/trump-buying-greenland-us-ownership-plan

Trump suggests U.S. should take ownership of Greenland

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President-elect Trump speaks in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday. Photo: Rebecca Noble/Getty Images

President-elect Trump indicated he wants Greenland under U.S. control as he named PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as his pick for United States ambassador to Denmark on Sunday.

The big picture: Trump said during his first administration that he was looking into the U.S. buying Greenland and canceled a state trip to Denmark after Danish officials said the autonomous territory that's part of its kingdom was not for sale.

  • He made his latest comments on Greenland after demanding earlier in the weekend that Panamanian authorities lower fees for U.S. ships to transit the Panama Canal or return its control to the United States.

Driving the news: "For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Howery.

  • "Ken will do a wonderful job in representing the interests of the United States."
  • Representatives for both Trump and Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to Axios request for comment in the evening.

Background: The U.S. has on several occasions since 1867 considered or attempted to buy Greenland — the world's largest island that's not a continent.

  • Greenland is part of the continent of North America, but it has close geopolitical ties to Europe and has received EU funding as it's classed as an overseas territory associated with the bloc via Denmark.

Between the lines: The territory has access to the Arctic, where there's been a race between nations for resources in a region that research shows is already feeling the impacts of climate change.

  • Russia has in recent years sought to claim territory up to Greenland's Exclusive Economic Zone.
  • Greenland's natural resources include gold, silver, copper and uranium and there's believed to be significant potential for oil in the waters off the territory.

Go deeper: The great game comes to Greenland

Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.



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