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Foreign Affairs

TexasTowelie

(119,833 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:04 AM Mar 5

Why Trump is obsessed with annexing Greenland - CaspianReport

Despite Trump's rhetoric, there are sincere strategic reasons why the US wants Greenland – be it trade routes, natural resources, strategic sites, security threats, and so on.

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Why Trump is obsessed with annexing Greenland - CaspianReport (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 5 OP

I mean...he's nuts. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 5 #1

But it's not ours to take. 2naSalit Mar 5 #2

Someone told him that Greenland is part of Denmark JoseBalow Mar 5 #3

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)

1. I mean...he's nuts.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:15 AM

Mar 5

There's no "rationale" behind it. He's nuts. He brings it up to distract the public from all the other ways he's nuts. Same reason he threatens to invade Canada. He's a hand-grenade of insanity tossed into the American body politic by the Kremlin.