Send him to bed without his Big Mac and fries
There were conflicting reports overnight on X regarding Donald Trump’s (and elected-to-nothing Stephen Miller’s) designs on Greenland. It is not clear how much is real and how much is posturing. Social media are spreading a sketchy item from a British tabloid claiming that Trump has ordered U.S. Special Forces to draft a plan for invading Greenland.
At this moment, I see no credible news sources confirming that tale. I’m inclined to believe that distributers of propaganda are spreading bogus stories about Britain or Germany sending forces or ships to Greenland to further boost tensions within NATO.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph of London reports:
Downing Street is in talks with European allies about deploying a military force to Greenland that would guard the Arctic for Donald Trump.
Military chiefs are drawing up plans for a possible Nato mission on the island, which the US president has threatened to seize for security reasons.
British officials have met with counterparts from countries including Germany and France in recent days to start the preparations.
Trump is playing “chicken” with NATO and WWIII.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is not standing for Trump-Miller’s imperialist designs against a NATO ally.
No doubt FBI Director Kash Patel will launch a sedition investigation of Lieu after returning from his Saturday night date with Alexis Wilkins.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) lays out the stakes of Trump invading Greenland. It means going to war with NATO. For brevity, Murphy reduced the matter to “war between the United States and Europe.” It also means going to war with Canada. Over Greenland.
You recall Big Dick Toilet Salesman, Matt Whitaker? Trump made him his ambassador to NATO.
Whitaker last week did his Trumpy duty by reinforcing the Trump-Miller line on the U.S. needing Greenland for national security reasons.
With so many Greenland stories sounding like Trumpish (or perhaps Russsianish) narrative-building exercises, I went to the expert: Elon Musk’s Grok AI.
Grok, When was the last time Denmark denied a U.S. request for a new or expanded base in Greenland?
[N]o explicit denial of a specific “new or expanded base” request has occurred in recent years (post-2019) based on available records.
The U.S. maintains its only current military facility in Greenland at Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule Air Base), established under the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement. This agreement already grants the U.S. broad rights to establish, expand, or operate military facilities across Greenland with Danish (and increasingly Greenlandic) consent, as part of NATO frameworks. Recent sources emphasize that Denmark has repeatedly offered or signaled willingness to discuss expansions or increased U.S. presence under existing treaties, rather than denying such requests.
If Trump was that concerned about having a greater U.S. security presence in Greenland (there were once 17 U.S. bases there), he might just ask Denmark nicely. But asking nicely is not Trump’s idiom, is it? Threats are. His transparent strong-arming of NATO allies — Nice alliance ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it — informs the world that national security is not why he really wants to possess the entire island. Avarice is. More crudely, Trump wants to mark his territory.
Someone send the toddler to bed without his Big Mac and fries before his whims get anyone else killed.
Also, whatever happened to that trove of Epstein files?