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TexasTowelie

(121,858 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:04 AM Mar 2025

Why Trump is obsessed with annexing Greenland - CaspianReport



Despite Trump's rhetoric, there are sincere strategic reasons why the US wants Greenland – be it trade routes, natural resources, strategic sites, security threats, and so on.
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Why Trump is obsessed with annexing Greenland - CaspianReport (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2025 OP
I mean...he's nuts. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #1
But it's not ours to take. 2naSalit Mar 2025 #2
Someone told him that Greenland is part of Denmark JoseBalow Mar 2025 #3
 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
1. I mean...he's nuts.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:15 AM
Mar 2025

There's no "rationale" behind it. He's nuts. He brings it up to distract the public from all the other ways he's nuts. Same reason he threatens to invade Canada. He's a hand-grenade of insanity tossed into the American body politic by the Kremlin.

2naSalit

(97,315 posts)
2. But it's not ours to take.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:25 AM
Mar 2025

Perhaps Denmark might tells us to bugger off and get out, they'd have every right to.

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