Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
Trump Could End NATO with Greenland Annexation
President Trump is in the midst of one of the biggest geopolitical blunders of all time, bigger than the US going into Iraq in 2003 and worse that Russian attacking Ukraine. For the sake of Greenland, he is prepared to destroy the NATO alliance that has kept America out of a lot of conflict over the last 75 years. Greenland is not important. NATO is. But like a casino-owner who cannot figure out how to make a profit (which is what Mr. Trump once was), he is convinced that he is getting the better deal. He says if the US does not get Greenland, Russia or China will. The man is genuinely an idiot.
First off, Russia and China are not in the business of grabbing Greenland now nor will they be ever. China has Taiwan to consider. An economic powerhouse just off the Chinese mainland, it is a nation of people who are culturally Chinese. This would be a far easier conquest to digest. As for Russia. One does not seem the taking Greenland either. The Russians cannot even take Kyiv.
Secondly, Greenland is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which is a NATO ally. The US already has a base there, and once upon a time had 17. The Danes and the Greenlanders have said that the US can expand its presence if it so desires. After 9/11, the Danes were among the first to help out.
Yet, that is not good enough for the felonious president. He wants the US to annex the island. This is where he proves he knows nothing about real estate. The Danes spend about $1 billion a year subsidizing the territory that exports fish and little else. America has a national deficit of over $1 trillion a year, so a billion here or there makes little difference. At the same time, there seems to be little reason to add to it. In addition, the White House has suggested a price at which it will purchase the territory, $500-700 billion. What an opportunity! Spend the better part of a trillion to have land that will cost a billion a year. That is the kind of math that bankrupted Trump Casinos.
The worst of it, though, would be the fall out among the NATO allies, or more accurately, the nations that were allies of the US before this foolishness started. Denmark could, if the US invades Greenland, appeal to the rest of NATO under Article 5 to help it stave off the USA. That would probably fail, but the military bases the US has in Europe would certainly be closed. One doubts there would be any shooting, but GI Joe would have to leave – about 100,000.
In addition, the US will lose its capacity to gather intelligence from those bases, and it will have to find other ports for its fleets. Europe will be, at best, a rival and at worst an enemy. And it will react with other weapons, too.
The Europeans hold more than $2 trillion US government debt. They also have massive amounts of US corporate debt. If they were to dump that onto the market, the price of US bonds would plummet. When that happens, bond yields rise. In other words, the Europeans can drive US interest rates up a painful amount. If that happens, future US debt offerings will go nowhere. Funding the US government will be expensive.
Mr. Trump has delusions about a great many things. That he is a real estate success is one of them. His organization was never a serious player in New York realty, a two-bit mom and pop at best. He knows this and has a chip on his shoulder about it. A land grab like this appeals to his vanity.
While it is still uncertain how this plays out, it is clear that Mr. Trump cares nothing for the system that has kept his voters' kids out of combat in Europe for 75 years, not when his legacy could be American Greenland.
The decline under the Trump administration continues to accelerate.
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