Frank Miele via RCP: Crazy Like a Fox: Trump’s Greenland Pitch

In articles and via videos there are plenty of voices weighing in on the notion of the U.S. getting their arms around Greenland in some form or fashion. The video below features Steve Forbes and following that are insights from Frank Miele via Real Clear Politics (RCP) plus RCP linked Real Clear Energy.

The Steve Fobes video makes some interesting points, but it is far from clear if Greenland became a state if it would fall into the blue state category. As with all third-party items, one must separate the wheat from the chaff.

While the specifics of how Greenland might become closely connected to the U.S. are open for debate (as these two items reflect), each thinker (Forbes and Miele) make it clear that it could be a good deal for the U.S. in numerous ways. It would also be wise not to let these territories fall into Chinese or Russian domination or control. More insights and observations will follow in Part II

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Crazy Like a Fox: Trump’s Greenland Pitch

COMMENTARY

By Frank Miele | January 13, 2025

It was back in August 2019, just about the time Democrats were wasting everyone’s time with the first fake impeachment scandal, when Donald Trump originally introduced the idea of buying Greenland from Denmark.

At the time, the notion was dismissed by the pointy-headed arbiters of right and wrong known as the mainstream media, who concluded that Trump must see his presidency as an extended season of “The Apprentice.” In this episode, the modern-day land baron outsmarts the Scandihoovian rubes who didn’t know the “green” in Greenland was cold hard cash.

Like almost every other preconception of Trump in his first term, that take was nonsensical. There was considerable historical and geo-political justification for Trump’s proposal to rescue Greenland from European colonialism, and perhaps if his enemies had not sprung the Ukraine phone call impeachment hoax shortly after the Greenland gambit was proposed, it might have become a major accomplishment of Trump’s first term.

I wrote about the original proposal on Aug. 26, 2019, for RealClearPolitics in an article that declared “Trump’s No Safe Bet; He’s a Leader.” The premise was that unlike the feckless, washed-out, safety-in-numbers politicians who lead by following polls, Trump used common sense and intuition to find solutions to problems no one else even liked to think about. Building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants might seem like an obvious idea now, but before Trump, no one would have dared to say it.

The same is true of his wish to reclaim Greenland as North American territory. Few if any of Trump’s contemporaries had considered the idea, but it was not without precedent. Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward had sought to purchase Greenland for the United States in 1867, the same year he famously acquired Alaska from Russia.

These days, it may seem jarring to talk about buying large chunks of real estate for the purpose of national aggrandizement, but it wasn’t always so. In addition to Seward’s purchase of Alaska, the United States also can be grateful for Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled the size of the country, as well as for the largely free acquisition of Florida from Spain. Land deals are not just in Trump’s blood; they are part of our national heritage.

They can also be vital to national security. Certainly everyone can agree we were infinitely better off during the era of the Soviet Union because Alaska was no longer in the hands of the Russian oligarchs. And President-elect Trump alluded to a similar benefit on Truth Social when he appointed his ambassador to Denmark in December:

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

Trump elaborated on that sentiment last week during his impromptu press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

“We need Greenland for national security purposes. … People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. That’s for the free world. I’m talking about protecting the free world. You don’t even need binoculars. You look outside, you have China ships all over the place. You have Russian ships all over the place. We’re not letting that happen. We’re not letting it happen.”

So again, we have the Russian threat, but this time added on top of the perhaps even greater Chinese threat. As I pointed out five years ago, China has its own eyes on Greenland, not just for the strategic importance but because it is a repository of rare earth minerals and other resources:
“President Trump was well aware that the Chinese had already expressed their own interest in Greenland, offering to fund millions of dollars of infrastructure improvements on the island as part of the plan for global economic domination known as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative.’”

Fortunately, pressure on Denmark largely thwarted China’s Greenland ambitions, but meanwhile Trump’s appetite for American expansionism was whetted.

It is perhaps significant that the play for Greenland has been paired with Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal, which was turned over to the nation of Panama by Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s. The canal zone, after all, has proven to be a lucrative foothold for China in the New World, and provides a chilling warning of what might happen if someone of Trump’s stature did not step forward to hold the communist state out of Greenland.

And one thing is certain. No one is laughing at Trump this time around for his pitch to Denmark. Far-fetched? Maybe, but no one dares to underestimate Trump any longer. His willpower is a force of nature, and if he says he wants Greenland, don’t count him out.

Trump has already become the dominant force on the world stage weeks before he takes office. His attendance at the reopening of Notre Dame caused ripples throughout Europe. Mexico and Canada were put on notice that there was no more free ride once Trump took office, as he threatened them both with tariffs. Trump’s jest about making Canada the 51st state deserves a lot of the credit for (Governor?) Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister. And that’s just the beginning.

You don’t have to take my word for it. Time magazine ran a little-heralded essay by Ray Dalio that examined “How a Second Trump Administration Will Change the Domestic and World Order.” Dalio, one of the world’s most powerful hedge-fund managers, is no friend of Trump. Before the election, he lamented that Trump led a “strong, unethical, almost fascist Republican Party.”
But after the fact he was forced to acknowledge that Trump’s election would lead to “a giant renovation of government and the domestic order aimed at making it run more efficiently” and that China would be “widely considered the United States’ single greatest threat.”

Although Dalio is nostalgic for the post-war international order, he recognizes that under the new rules, “The U.S. and China will be competing for allies, with China generally believed to be in a much better position to win over nonaligned countries because China is more important economically and does a better job exerting its soft power.”

Unless you are a secret admirer of Xi Jinping, that assessment makes the best case for why Donald Trump is the right person for the job of restoring American dominance. No one does a better job of exerting “soft power” than the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president. He has already changed the conversation just with a social media post and a press conference. So what happens when he gets in office?

I’m not the only one taking Trump seriously. So are both Republicans and Democrats.
Sen. John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat, for instance, said, “I do think it’s a responsible conversation if they [Denmark] were open to [the United States] acquiring it, you know, whether just buying it outright. If anyone thinks that’s bonkers, it’s like, well, remember the Louisiana Purchase.”
And MAGA superstar Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, accompanied Donald Trump Jr. to Nuuk, Greenland, last week to test the waters for Making Greenland America Again.

“What we learned is a couple of things,” he told his huge YouTube audience. “Number one, the people of Greenland are awesome. They’re tough people, they have tough winters. They’ve been through a lot and they feel forgotten, but they are the most lovely people. Number two, they feel as if they’re mistreated right now by the Danish government, that the Danish government is not treating them the way they’d like to be treated, and they want to be wealthy again.”

In just one week, the real work begins after Trump is sworn in. There’s no guarantee that he will accomplish his goal of buying Greenland, but with his salesmanship, one thing is certain – it’s more likely that Greenland will become the 51st state than that Canada will.

Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His book “The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake” is available from his Amazon author page. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA and on X/Gettr @HeartlandDiary.

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Part II Additional Information plus other Topics

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) said this 2 days ago: "It is up to Greenland to decide its future, Danish PM tells Trump" and "In her call with Trump, Mette Frederiksen also reiterated the Greenland PM's comments that it was "not for sale.""

The Guardian reported the following.

Trump Jr’s brief visit to Nuuk, the Greenlandic capital, and the subsequent comments by his father, US president-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Monday, reiterating his interest in acquiring the world’s largest island and threatening military action to do so, have sparked mixed opinions in this Arctic autonomous territory.

But what nobody seems to disagree on is the global spotlight it has put on Greenland, its geopolitical strategic importance, and its relationship with Denmark, which formerly ruled the island as a colony and continues to control its foreign and security policy.

It is a moment that the pre-existing independence movement – and those whose years of protests against racist practices against Greenlanders, both current and historic, have for so long gone ignored – do not plan to waste.

The headline for the above proclaimed: "‘It should be up to us’: Greenlanders on Trump, Denmark – and their land"

Whitney Webb is a left-leaning journalist that has provided some interesting reports over the years. That said, the video that follows is IMHO arguably a mixed bag. She is correct in terms of some of the concerns about Mark Zuckerberg and the motivation of some to get the minerals and resources of Greenland. That said, that doesn't make getting Greenland sinister. Webb is correct to sound a cautionary note about the influence of big tech billionaires but that doesn't mean that Greenland is a deal to be avoided. Do we want Greenland to fall into Chinese control or to be dependent on China for rare earth minerals?

While nothing is certain as to the future of Greenland and the U.S., what is clear is that Trump seems to mean it and he is already making progress on some levels. Keep an eye at this giant island up north, because someday we may wake up and find that the "art of the deal" has closed some sort of deal to secure U.S. interests in that vast and routinely frozen island to the north.

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