Trump Wins 6th Trade War As Greenland Bends The Knee

Written by Chriss W. Street

Five weeks after pressure from President Trump’s demands for the United States to buy Greenland, Denmark bent the knee by signing a NATO Arctic and North Atlantic security agreement to spend $2 billion to buy new warships, long-range drones and improved space capabilities that will dramatically strengthen Greenberg’s defenses.

President-elect Trump on December 23, 2024, kicked off a trade war across the Americas by demanding Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Columbia Panama and Greenland make dramatic trade and national security concessions, or the U.S. would take them over.

Mainstream media and Biden officials howled that Trump was reviving the 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion policy called Manifest Destiny.

The U.S. operated Thul Air Force Base and Early Warning site in Greenland with thousands of soldiers and sailors during the Cold War. Down to about around 650 personnel that operate “Top of the World” missile defense and space surveillance missions in 2023, the Biden administration renamed the site Pituffik Space Base in recognition of the region’s indigenous Greenlander’s language.

Denmark Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen stated its autonomous territories, which include Greenland and the Faroe Islands, were not for sale. Leading Danish European Parliament member Anders Vistisen told the EU assembly he wants Trump to f*** off.

As a NATO member, Denmark was spending about 1.5% of GDP on defense in 2014 when they agreed to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP. When President Trump 45 took office two years later, Denmark’s People’s Party, Social Democrats, and Social-Liberal Party cut defense spending to 1.3% of GDP.

But six weeks later with President Trump having bullied five nations in the Americas into submission, Denmark’s Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen stated that in “close collaboration” with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Denmark has decided to spend 21% of its $78 billion budget for 2025 on military hardware.

The first $2.1 billion spending tranche will include new Joint Arctic Command naval vessels capable of carrying helicopters and drones; two long-range drones with the “ability to conduct surveillance over large areas at great distances” and increase satellite “capacity.”

JACO will also revive the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol – elite naval units made up of experienced Danes patrolling Greenland’s eastern coast on dog sleds.

Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen arriving at a NATO meeting in Belgium on February 4^th, told reporters she now acknowledges U.S. concerns regarding Arctic Region security where Russia and China are now active.

Fredericksen stated: “I totally agree with the Americans that the High North, that the Arctic region is becoming more and more important when we are talking about defense and security and deterrence.” She welcomed opportunities for the U.S. and Denmark and to “scale up” their security presence in Greenland.