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Danish Officials Now Betting on U.S. Cooperation
Over Greenland

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/14/2026 4:42:30 PM

On Wednesday, after a closed-door meeting with American officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen held a press conference. His remarks sounded cautiously optimistic. The narrative presented by the American president, as we've been reporting, is that Greenland should become an American possession. Needless to say, Denmark and Greenland aren't keen on the idea. While it seems unlikely that the United States would attempt to take Greenland by force, the big island does in fact occupy a vital strategic position in the North Atlantic; it's something worth trying to make a deal over.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Birddog 1/14/2026 5:31:03 PM (No. 2054969)
Nobody in the world wanted to support, fund, participate in, or even talk about "Robust Defense of Greenland"....NOW everyone is talking about how to do it...It Took them trying to figure out a way to counteract an "American Threat" to understand Trumps position about a Russian threat. They had ZERO CLUE as to how to do either one. 3D Chess.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/14/2026 5:32:58 PM (No. 2054971)
FTA - "“Greenland does not want to be owned by the USA. Greenland does not want to be governed by the USA. Greenland will not be part of the USA. We choose the Greenland we know today, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark,” he said in a news conference Tuesday with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen." Nielsen, you sure that the Greenland folks agree with your assessment? My understanding is that they dislike Denmark just as much as the Icelanders do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: EQKimball 1/14/2026 5:45:35 PM (No. 2054981)
Greenland does not want to be owned by the U.S. But having a major seat at the table in U.S. politics as a state with two senators is a different matter for 51,000 people who have no influence now. For their part, the Democrats would almost certainly agree to statehood for the same reason they want statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. Is it worth it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 1/14/2026 6:35:11 PM (No. 2055001)
To my thinking, a 100 year lease would seem to be good for everyone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chance_232 1/14/2026 7:32:15 PM (No. 2055032)
Greenland is still part of Denmark ONLY because the US prevented Nazi Germany from occupying it, and then gave it back when Denmark stopped cooperating with the nazis.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bighambone 1/14/2026 8:04:06 PM (No. 2055038)
NATO should defend Greenland, if NATO would make that clear the situation would quickly burn itself out.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rumblehog 1/15/2026 1:46:42 AM (No. 2055117)
Where can Americans place their bets too? /s
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mifla 1/15/2026 6:01:53 AM (No. 2055131)
Greenland should ask Trump to make them an offer. Money talks, everything else walks.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bpl40 1/15/2026 7:09:46 AM (No. 2055179)
I am reminded of the scene from the Godfather. Where Fredo asks Michael if he is sure Mo wants to sell his share in the casino. And Michael says we will make him an offer he cannot refuse.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 1/15/2026 9:21:51 AM (No. 2055265)
Report in Wall Street Journal says Greenland is heavily dependent on subsidies from Denmark…. surprise, surprise. Do we really want to take on another population of welfare dependents?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: felixcat 1/15/2026 9:54:51 AM (No. 2055295)
When I hear talk of the US acquiring Greenland, maybe even statehood. All I see is Alaska and Senator Lisa Murkowski. NO.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 1/15/2026 10:17:17 AM (No. 2055323)
Trump is negotiating. One item is that Greenland is now defended by the U.S. for free -- but it belongs to Denmark. Denmark should be paying the U.S. something for defending their possession.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 1/15/2026 10:46:38 AM (No. 2055338)
Denmark? Is that realy a country? The only good thing to ever come from there was Victor Borge.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/15/2026 10:51:45 AM (No. 2055340)
The art of the deal.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Geoman 1/15/2026 3:03:49 PM (No. 2055465)
The US deployed and maintained air bases, and both tactical and strategic fighter and bomber squadrons, at Thule Air Base, established by the US in 1941, five years prior to the birth of President Trump in 1946 and close to a dozen other US installations in Greenland throughout the Cold War. Trump was obviously not the author of the idea of using bases in Greenland to protect the US homeland from Russian attack. The US presence on Greenland was never intended for the protection of Greenland or Denmark but to protect the US homeland and to place Russia within range of our nuclear armed bombers based in Greenland, with Thule being less than 1,000 miles from the North Pole, with Russian Nuclear Missile fields on their side of the pole. The US disregarded Denmark's prohibition on having nuclear weapons on the island. In January 1968, as the Vietnam War raged in Southeast Asia, 58 years ago, a B-52G Stratofortress bomber, flying on an alert mission, crashed due to a cabin fire that prevented an emergency landing at Thule, with the crew ejecting and the aircraft losing its four B28Fi thermonuclear bombs on the sea ice at North Star Bay. The crash and fire caused the conventional explosives on board to detonate, spreading radioactive waste across the area. The clean-up, a joint effort by the US and Denmark, was extensive and difficult. As was revealed in 1995, the Danish government had gone outside of its stated 'nuclear free' Greenland policy in the 1960s, tacitly allowing the USAF to store and maintain nuclear weapons at Thule. History has shown Denmark's willingness to work with the US in deterring Russian security threats, just as the US helped Denmark against the Germans before and during WWII. Like France, Denmark was occupied by German forces from 1940 throughout the duration of WWII. Also like France, some Danes cooperated with the Germans but also had resistance groups who in many cases, assisted Allied air crew who were shot down during raids on Germany and were repatriated back to Allied installations. The recent threats from our administration that a military option was on the table to annex Greenland, were totally unnecessary to ensure US homeland security, at least since 1941, when the US first established Thule Air Base. A similar situation applied to Canada, with US bases in Labrador, primarily the large, strategic air base at Goose Bay.
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