Real Threats Make Greenland a Must

Why would Trump want Greenland? In 2019 Trump stated that it is like “a large real estate deal.” In 2024 he stated, “We need Greenland for national security purposes.” The intensity for acquiring Greenland has increased.

Why would the U.S. need Greenland for national security purposes? 

Greenland is larger than France, Germany, Italy and the UK combined according to Russian TASS news military expert Andrey Kilintsevich.  It is bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, according to Fox News reporter Amanda Macias.  Among vast estimates of oil, metals and natural gas reserves, Greenland is also known for having the eighth largest deposits of rare earth elements, estimated at 1.5 million tones by the U.S. Geological Survey, and said to be worth trillions.  Rare earths have become increasingly important as they allow electronics to be smaller and are used in everything from batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, “missile guidance systems, radar, sonar, satellites and advanced aircraft.”  Greenland’s rare earths are located at Kvanefjeld and Tanbreez, neither of which has been mined due to only 20% of Greenland being ice-free and other parts inaccessible for most of the year, making some say, because these elements are “buried beneath massive glaciers,” there is no known practical mining solutions.

With all these strategic reserves, is this what makes Greenland a national security issue?  Perhaps partially with China and Russia eager for the wealth and resources, but more than its material wealth, is the strategic location of Greenland.  Looking at a globe you will see that Greenland is pivotal to the “Artic front.”   Besides the fact that Greenland sits at “the entry gate to the Atlantic for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear-armed submarines,”  Jesse Watters points out that launch of ICBMs from Russia travel right over Greenland to hit the U.S., making U.S. missile defense in Greenland necessary to knock the ICBMs down early.  Watters’s says, (at 7:50) “What do you think happens if America gets peppered with missiles?  The Europeans have to say ‘bye, bye’ to daddy.  That means they will be speaking Russian and probably Chinese.” 

Since 1953 Greenland has been home to the U.S. Pituffik Space Base, which is operated by the U.S. Space Force Guardians.  The base consists of a runway, a seaport and a lot of radar and gigantic satellites dishes, which are part of the U.S. early-warning system for intercontinental ballistic missile threats and sea-launched missiles coming out of Russia, China or anywhere else.  The base is used for tracking, command and control for U.S. satellites and all other objects in space, such as China’s 1,300 satellites.  “America would be blind without this surveillance.”

The threat is that these radars are vulnerable to hypersonic missiles, according to October 2025 critics.  Also, while a January 7, 2026 article claims there is no merit to Trump’s concern of Russian and Chinese ships around Greenland being a threat, China sent icebreaker ships to the Arctic in 2024 and sent a “research submarine” under the Artic cap.  Note that new versions of China’s Type 096 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines appear to have stronger hulls for operating amidst ice.  In addition, in the summer of 2025 and China sent a container ship from China to Britain via the “Polar Silk Road,” which is over 4,000 nautical miles shorter and takes seven days less than the present Southern route from Ningbo, China to the U.K.  Thus, the threat of foreign ships around Greenland is becoming increasingly concerning.

Some might say, China is just exercising their free trade ambitions, but on January 19, 2026, China launched its first refitted cargo ship that has been converted to a weapons system according to Taiwan’s Taipei Times.  The container ship, the Zhongda 79, has advanced radar, missile launchers, and numerous combat drones.  Taipei Times says, “the ‘military-civilian fusion’ strategy of disguising weapons systems within standard shipping containers is a ‘gray zone’ warfare tactic to complicate targeting decisions for Beijing’s opponents.”  If you stop and think about the reason for such a ship being designed and deployed, the only reason that comes to light is that this is a covert, offensive, first strike, surprise attack vessel.  If hypersonic missiles sent from China and Russia could knock out U.S. radar in Greenland, imagine what these missiles could do if launched from a covert weaponized cargo ship coming down the Polar Silk Road off the shore of Greenland. 

President Trump sees the threat as real. 

This coupled with the fact that China presently owns or partially owns 37 seaports in Latin America and both ends of the Panama Canal, raises the threat level, as it appears plans are being made to come from both directions.  You don’t need 37 seaports in Latin America positioned in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean for off-loading Chinese imports, but having 37 seaports would work out nicely for rapid deployment of an invasion force.

China’s Global Times is making fun of Trump and other NATO countries over the hostile discourse concerning Greenland.  They quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov who gleefully expressed that the discourse over Greenland marked the “collapse of the transatlantic union,” which would include initiatives between the U.S. and Europe, such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and NATO.  Peskov stated, “Perhaps here we can detach ourselves from the question of whether this [the acquisition of Greenland] is good or bad or whether it complies with international law or not, [as if Russia was concerned about international law], but there are international experts who believe that by resolving the issue of Greenland’s accession, Trump will go down in history.”

Peskov, or should we say, “Pest-ov,” President Trump has already gone down in history, and your contribution to history will be like the period at the end of a sentence, if that much.

In addition, China’s Global Times reported that former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev joked about Europe “getting poorer.” 

The only reason for Europe “getting poorer” is their immigration policy and their snuggling up to indebtedness to Communist China. 

Dmitry and Dmitry seem to be lacking in their wit.  Is it possible that the U.S. could send Russia some books of baby names to help their creativity beyond just the name Dmitry?

So, what is going to happen with Greenland?  Perhaps a guest on Jesse Watters’ Primetime said it best.  The guest was former U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and president of WorldStrat, Jim Hanson, who, Watters said, was “exactly right with Venezuela.  It went down exactly the way you said it would.”  Then Watters asked, “So tell me how is it going to go down with Greenland.” Hanson responded, “It’s going to become a U.S. property in some way, shape, or form.”

President Trump wrote a text to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Hahr Store and stated, “I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now NATO should do something for the United States.  The world is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.  Thank you!  President DJT.”