Meanwhile...Denmark/Greenland will let us do anything we want militarily to protect our interests in Greenland with current and abandoned US military bases. We can move any assets we want there. So all the arguments about security are BS. Trump wants to OWN Greenland, not protect it.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 15, 2026
The world’s largest island is prized by the U.S. president as the real-estate purchase of a lifetime. It boasts a strategic location and untapped mineral reserves buried deep beneath the ice," wrote the board. "Right now, however, the economy is reliant on something more prosaic: fishing and a recent surge in investment to build new airports. And revenue from both of these is trending down, causing the economy to flatline in 2025."There is a pattern here.
In fact, the board noted, polls show Greenlanders are more worried about the state of their economy than the risk Trump could conquer them, something they have made clear they don't want. And Greenlandic politicians have acknowledged whoever is in charge is "more likely to find themselves staring down a money pit rather than a gold mine."
"The island is one of one of the world’s biggest welfare states, a vast expanse of ice-clad villages whose residents — reachable only by helicopter and propjet — are nonetheless accustomed to the perks of Denmark’s social democracy, from free healthcare to robust schools," wrote the board. "It could also take years and billions of dollars to transform an economy where 98% of the exports are seafood into a mining behemoth."
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