Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
Very telling that they consider bombing Iran to be less of an issue than invading Greenland. I know Greenland itself is majority indigenous but they’re probably more concerned with upsetting Denmark.
I could imagine geography also plays into it. A bombing run is one thing, but invading a massive country in the arctic circle is going to be difficult if you don’t want your roided up grunts to freeze to death. And that’s ignoring all the geopolitics of it
It has fuck all population and the US is the only presence there with military bases.
There is not going to be an invasion. It’s going to be like Crimea which was wholly occupied by the Russian military before they took it because they were leasing the port for their military use.
The US will just say “this is ours now” and dare anyone to come and force them out.
The title of the of the post is literally about trump ordering plans of an invasion to be made.
You’re assuming rationality by the chiefs of staff. Greenland is already under American military occupation. There is already an active base on Greenland as well as several inactive bases, which the us have an open invitation to activate at any time. Practically Greenland has already been invaded.
This doesn’t sound like it’s about practicality. They are talking about “drawing up invasion plans” IE. making some massive and impressive maneuver that Trump can shit his diaper about. Not just stepping out of the Thule airbase and saying “this is ours now”. Because that’s more or less de facto what they’ve already done and that hasn’t satisfied Trump.
De facto Greenland is and has been under American control for decades. Trump wants it to be De Jure, for some reason, and it seems like the only way he can think of doing that is by launching a large scale invasion or some sort of SMO which probably will involve naval landings or some shit like that.
Even if it doesn’t: If what trump wants is troops to march over Greenland, then that will be difficult because Greenland is large and cold and sparsely populated so it’s also sparsely urbanised. Few roads.
edit: If there is anything somewhat rational about this it might be a sort of carrot-or-stick situation where Trump threatens invasion in order to get Denmark and Greenland to agree to a purchase. But I don’t know how that would function in practicality
Iran would be even more of a nightmare. It’s super mountainous, it has deserts. MILLIONS of people. One of the biggest armies in the world. How would that be better??
Very telling that they consider bombing Iran to be less of an issue than invading Greenland. I know Greenland itself is majority indigenous but they’re probably more concerned with upsetting Denmark.
I suspect the whole “End of NATO” is what they fear.
Totally. That threatens NATO and I wouldn’t be surprised if senior military officials are all NATO-philes.
NATO is an organization that allows them to just add vassal state militaries to their own command, they don’t just like it they love it!
Upsetting Denmark and the rest of the US’ white allies, which are already completely subservient, for no actual discernable benefit.
Of course they’d rather take am action against Russia or Iran.
This is a signal to all US allies that they should’ve taken Kissinger’s parable seriously.
I could imagine geography also plays into it. A bombing run is one thing, but invading a massive country in the arctic circle is going to be difficult if you don’t want your roided up grunts to freeze to death. And that’s ignoring all the geopolitics of it
It has fuck all population and the US is the only presence there with military bases.
There is not going to be an invasion. It’s going to be like Crimea which was wholly occupied by the Russian military before they took it because they were leasing the port for their military use.
The US will just say “this is ours now” and dare anyone to come and force them out.
I haven’t talked about population at all I think?
The title of the of the post is literally about trump ordering plans of an invasion to be made.
You’re assuming rationality by the chiefs of staff. Greenland is already under American military occupation. There is already an active base on Greenland as well as several inactive bases, which the us have an open invitation to activate at any time. Practically Greenland has already been invaded.
This doesn’t sound like it’s about practicality. They are talking about “drawing up invasion plans” IE. making some massive and impressive maneuver that Trump can shit his diaper about. Not just stepping out of the Thule airbase and saying “this is ours now”. Because that’s more or less de facto what they’ve already done and that hasn’t satisfied Trump.
De facto Greenland is and has been under American control for decades. Trump wants it to be De Jure, for some reason, and it seems like the only way he can think of doing that is by launching a large scale invasion or some sort of SMO which probably will involve naval landings or some shit like that.
Even if it doesn’t: If what trump wants is troops to march over Greenland, then that will be difficult because Greenland is large and cold and sparsely populated so it’s also sparsely urbanised. Few roads.
edit: If there is anything somewhat rational about this it might be a sort of carrot-or-stick situation where Trump threatens invasion in order to get Denmark and Greenland to agree to a purchase. But I don’t know how that would function in practicality
Iran would be even more of a nightmare. It’s super mountainous, it has deserts. MILLIONS of people. One of the biggest armies in the world. How would that be better??
Whenever you think someone says something ludicrous, please reread their text thoroughly.