Why was Trump so interested in Greenland?
It is difficult to answer, but it definitely wasn’t to aquire Greenland, as USA can already do whatever they fancy on the world’s biggest island. Have a look at below map of American post-war bases (which is not even a fraction of the 30-50 different sites used by America since 1945).
If it wasn’t for military security and safety sakes, what then?
Why this show?
Was it out of Trump’s own vanity so that he was able to claim that he enlarged his impire?
Was it because Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen needed a helping hand in his voter ratings?
Was it to keep the public’s attention away from something else?
Personally I tilt towards the last two bulletpoints.
What’s the story about Greenland?
While front pages around the world are reporting on Trump’s - perhaps failing - attempt to acquire sovereignty, or partial sovereignty, over Greenland, there are a number of relevant facts about Greenland that are not being discussed at all, or hardly at all:
Since Danish explorer Hans Egede’s arrival in 1721, Greenland has been considered a Danish colony (becoming a Danish county in 1953).
In 1941 Denmark’s ambassador to the US, Henrik Kauffmann, bypassed the Danish government and ceded sovereignty over Greenland in the first Greenland Treaty.
The US established 17 military sites across Greenland during World War II, 13 of which were army bases and 4 were naval bases.
Kauffmann played a double game in the post-war years by working against Denmark’s openly declared desire for neutrality.
Partly (at least) as a result of the challenge to Greenland’s sovereignty, Denmark joined NATO in 1949.
Denmark reaffirmed Kauffmann’s Greenland Treaty by entering into a new Greenland Treaty with the US in 1951.
The two defense treaties: In 1941, the relationship was based on the US helping Denmark. In 1951, this was reversed to the US acting on its own behalf in Danish territories.
The constitutional amendment of 1953 made Greenland part of the Danish Realm as a Danish county (Danish: amt).
From 1959 to 1967 the Americans equipped and operated Camp Century (approx. 200 km inland from Thule). It consisted of 21 tunnels with a total length of 9,800 feet (3.0 km) and was powered by a nuclear reactor.
In 1968, an American B-52 bomber crashed near Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland. The plane was armed with four hydrogen bombs, one of which is still likely to be lying (unexploded and undetonated) under the ice sheet.
During the Cold War, the US had up to 30-50 different installations in Greenland.
When Denmark joined the EC in 1972, Greenland voted ‘no’ but was forced to join. After the Greenland Commission (1975-78), home rule was introduced in 1979.
Greenland officially withdrew from the EU in 1985.
In 2009, self-government was introduced, which means that Greenland has gained even more autonomy locally.
US presence in January 2026: According to the 1951 defense agreement, the US has legal rights to operate throughout Greenland:
Freedom of movement: American aircraft and ships have the right to use Greenlandic airspace and waters for their operations.
Access to civil infrastructure: The US regularly uses civil airports such as Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) and Narsarsuaq for logistics and stopovers, even though they are no longer American bases.
The US often operates temporarily in other locations in connection with exercises:
NORAD operations: During joint US-Canadian exercises (NORAD), fighter jets and surveillance aircraft operate in large parts of Greenlandic airspace to test preparedness.
Training on the ice sheet: The US Air Force (109th Airlift Wing) regularly uses the areas around the abandoned DYE stations on the ice sheet to train landings with their ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft.
Legally, Greenland cannot terminate defense agreements with the US on its own.
However, according to the Igaliku Agreement (2004), the Greenlandic government (Naalakkersuisut) must be consulted and informed prior to any significant change in US military operations or facilities in the country.
Denmark also gave the US the green light to man three air bases in Jutland (Skrydstrup/Karup/Aalborg) with the base agreement passed by the Danish Parliament in 2025. The agreement is non-terminable for 10 years.
In October 2025 the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025” was introduced in the US Congress - This bill (if passed) authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as “Red, White, and Blueland”.
In addition, Denmark’s current membership of the EU means that EU law takes precedence over Danish law, which also affects Greenland (which withdrew from the EU in 1985).
From all of the above, it can be concluded that neither Greenland nor Denmark are sovereign states that can make sovereign decisions without the US. To put it bluntly, Denmark is a vassal state of the US in purely military terms, and Greenland is a vassal state of Denmark - and the US - in purely military terms.
Even so, if put in purely legislative terms, Denmark is a vassal state of the EU, through the membership of the European Union. Greenland is not an EU member, but the legal system in Greenland is Danish, the judges are Danish and the streets are patrolled by the Danish Police (however it has to be noted that a local police school was established in 2020 in Greenland).
US military bases in mainland Denmark
On December 21, 2023, the government entered into an agreement with the United States regarding American military bases in Denmark.
The timeline for the signed bilateral defense cooperation agreement betweenDenmark and the United States is as follows:
February 10, 2022: The Social Democratic government, with Mette Frederiksen as Prime Minister, announces that it will begin negotiations on a bilateral defense cooperation agreement with the United States.
April 19, 2022, to September 21, 2023: Mette Frederiksen’s two governments hold a total of five rounds of negotiations with the United States.
December 19, 2023: The government consults with the Foreign Policy Committee and informs the defense agreement group about the agreement.
December 20, 2023: The government publishes the bilateral defense cooperation agreement with the United States for the first time on the Ministry of Defense’s website.
December 21, 2023: Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen signs the defense cooperation agreement together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
June 11, 2025: The government makes the ‘necessary’ legislative changes in parliament, WITHOUT A REFERENDUM → UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!
Facts regarding the bilateral defense cooperation agreement between Denmark and the United States:
Initially, the plan is to establish three bases at the air bases in Skrydstrup, Karup, and Aalborg.
There is no upper limit on the number of American soldiers or the size of the military equipment at the three bases.
If a US soldier is suspected of a crime in Denmark, he or she cannot be investigated by the Danish police or prosecuted in Danish courts (unless American authorities turns them over, which they never do in other places like Germany and Japan.
The agreement is non-terminable for 10 years but will continue automatically thereafter unless the agreement is terminated.
The agreement involves the transfer of Danish sovereignty to the US, even on a permanent basis, which activates sections 19 and 20 of the Constitution.
The Americans brought nuclear weapons to Thule Air Base in Greenland, which is evident in the very poorly covered-up scandal surrounding the crashed B-52 bomber with hydrogen bombs at Thule Air Base. This proves that the population cannot trust Danish or American politicians when they promise that there will be no nuclear weapons at the American bases in Skrydstrup, Karup, and Aalborg.
And what about the nuclear power plant in Camp Century, build at a time when public and politicians demanded that Denmark and Greenland were free of nuclear power and nuclear weapons?
The Danish people have not been adequately informed about the politicians’ far-reaching decisions to surrender Danish sovereignty. The decision has been made over the heads of the Danish people without proper information and consent.
The US has practically occupied Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland in a very short time
In 2022, the Americans entered into a bilateral agreement with Norway similar to the Danish. See an article in Finans entitled “With new agreement, US military can operate in Norway as if it were in the US” (use your browser’s translate function)
And in 2023, both Sweden and Finland succumbed to the Americans’ desire for a strong military presence in the Nordic region.
The image below shows the 17 military bases in Sweden to which the US has access.
What is the US doing in the Nordic countries?
What has been so urgent over the past 5 years that the US is willing to sacrifice large sums from its national budget and open 40 costly bases in the Nordic countries? Of these, 15 are located in Finland, 17 in Sweden, 4 in Norway, and the aforementioned 3 in Denmark, plus the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark, which is an expanded NATO port to which the Americans already have access. Why are none of the Nordic countries’ governments putting their foot down and saying “no thank you” to the US?
It can hardly be because they are genuinely concerned about Russia’s military capabilities. Russia is a military dwarf compared to the Western European countries, not to mention the US, which alone has a military budget 10 times larger than Russia’s. So the answer must be found elsewhere.
During the so-called coronavirus pandemic in 2020-2022, a new assumption emerged among populations around the world that did not harmonize with what the mainstream media presented to the public. The assumption was that a global conspiracy by a power elite, or a so-called Technocratis Elite, would introduce a New World Order through various crises, such as pandemics and wars.
World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab even wrote a book “COVID-19: The Great Reset,“ in which he explains the steps he anticipates in this global ”reset.” According to the book, an economic reset is one of the first steps that will take place after the pandemic.
If this conspiracy is real, the United States is a country that is subject to this conspiratorial power elite. In that case, it makes sense that the US would push for the establishment of these military bases in the Nordic countries, whose governments are already under the strong influence of the conspiratorial power elite.
Having foreign troops in a country that can be deployed against the country’s own population is a great advantage (to the elite!) In this way, those in power avoid the military mutinying when it is deployed against the country’s population, as the military is not national.
But could it be a future scenario that American soldiers are deployed against the Danes? Let’s hope not, but if the conspiracy is real, it is certainly a possibility that those in power have considered.
