Trump: ‘Anything Less’ Than U.S. Control Of Greenland Is ‘Unacceptable’
January 14th, 2026Trump’s argument for seizing Greenland, that Russia or China will seize it if the U.S. doesn’t, makes no sense. Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) falls under the protection of NATO. Therefore, if Russia or China attempted to seize Greenland, that would trigger a unified response from the NATO alliance under Article 5.
So, what’s the actual motivation?
Oil?
Minerals?
Something weird you saw on 4Chan?
Other?
I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem like this is going away.
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Trump said early Wednesday on Truth Social that anything less than full American control of Greenland would be “unacceptable” – and even cited its necessity in erecting the new Golden Dome missile defense system.
“The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building. NATO should be leading the way for us to get it. IF WE DON’T, RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!” Trump wrote.
The statement was issued just ahead of Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with officials from the large far northern island and NATO member Denmark at the White House.
“Militarily, without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and am now bringing to a new and even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent – Not even close! They know that, and so do I,” Trump continued.
“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” he asserted, adding that “anything less than that is unacceptable.”
Preparation for Arctic Circle pre-eminence…or a 104° Earth Crust Displacement Oscillation (ECDO)?
Nah, those suggestions are clearly way too sensible in light of the geopolitical madness going down.
BTW, Greenland is about the size of Saudi Arabia.
Magnetic pole travels? These have been weird since the late 1990s, about the time when rural T° stopped tracking solar irradiance.
When Trump threatened to forsake NATO / Europe, what was the outcome? Massive and still ongoing narrative-building in Europe for defence-spending, conscription and war preparations, with all of them ramping up their proportion of GDP allocated to military matters. Mission accomplished.
When Trump and Vance “humiliated” Zelensky at the White House, what was the upshot? France and the UK established “Multinational Force for Ukraine” under the Northwood Treaty in July 2025 with HQ alternating between London and Paris. Mission accomplished.
The Greenland gambit is therefore to be interpreted as narrative-building for a massive expansion of the US military presence on the island, along with support from European NATO members.
This war that is coming is going to be very taxing on all parties so the decision has been made already that Europe must take on a much greater share of the burden by dealing with Russia, while the US makes China its number one priority, but in any case, neither the US nor Europe will shirk from aiding the other if required once things go hot.
With that in mind, the recent US approval of the purchase of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft by Denmark, the same Denmark that is being “threatened” (wink, wink) over Greenland, should help clarify the true picture.
At the level of the West’s supranational oligarchy that hides behind the charade of accountable democracy, there are no major divisions, at least with regard to the “plan”; sure, dissent and mudslinging is both permitted and encouraged at the sock-puppet-frontman level of the various national governments, but really, no western government is truly sovereign (Trump’s regime included); rather, all sovereignty and power lies with the globalist elites. Everything else is theatre.
@soothinghex
They’ve continued to be weird. Yes, increased warmth (from below the ocean floor) is part of the picture.
I don’t subscribe to the full Dzahnibekovan flip thing but I’m open to the idea related changes are coming.
@cryingfreeman
So, war plans hiding behind a puppet show for the newspapers to distract us all as they set the stage? Believable! But why is Russia still a bogeyman?
Is it because it exists (brazenly!) as unincorporated territory, an economic frontier — an untapped market to milk, endgame resources to control? Is it about its threat to global reserve currency dominance? I keep thinking not welcoming Russia into the West in the 80s was a huge mistake, and the only explanation I’ve ever found for it related to very big banking.
Having said that, to this amateur it seems there are cracks in the global vision, both for us and for the elites. They’re still reeling after their covid plans didn’t reach fruition, and their house is increasingly divided. The snakes realise they can’t all become dragons.
@Dennis
HAARP, said to have its uses in weather modification, comes to mind.
“A Russian military journal warned that blasting the ionosphere would trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip Earth’s magnetic poles. “Simply speaking, the planet will ‘capsize,'” it warned. The European Parliament held hearings about Haarp; so did the Alaska state legislature.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20140726085228/http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-08/mf_haarp?currentPage=all
Russia’s relationship to climate warming is a bit ambivalent. It would make mineral extraction easier, open areas to agriculture, and give it an oversight role on the Arctic shipping path. Meanwhile though, hydrocarbon extraction on melting ice seems a difficult technical challenge.
@Dennis,
I think it’s primarily narrative-building to justify unpalatable policies in the sight of the public, but with an element of distraction thrown in as well as a side benefit.
Russia (and China) are bogeymen because their elites constitute an authentic, zero sum game rival axis to the West’s.
@cryingfreeman
As I said, I’m an amateur on this subject, but I wonder…Has the West made it a zero-sum game for Russia? ‘Become a vassal or remain an enemy’?
@soothing hex
Thanks for that link.
@Dennis, no, I believe Russia was never sincere in its reforms, and the fact that ex-party and KGB apparatchiks lingered on in bureaucracy there very long after the USSR’s dissolution might suggest that. Conclusive evidence on top of that is the fact that Russia has remained as what is plainly a tyranny (in which dissidents end up poisoned, “balconied”, “plane-crashed”, gulaged, machine-gunned, etc.), run under a hyper socialist model that appears to be what some would call final phase Marxism.