Germany Declares Solidarity With Greenland Against Trump, France Floats Deploying Troops

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Germany Declares Solidarity With Greenland Against Trump, France Floats Deploying Troops

Oliver JJ Lane 29 Jan 2025

Germany’s Chancellor tacitly compared President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while France said it offered its army to Greenland.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had meetings in several European capitals on Tuesday in what has been interpreted as an impromptu tour of allies to build an alliance against the United States, as President Donald Trump has expressed the desire to acquire Greenland from the country. Greenland has been under the jurisdiction of Denmark for centuries, first a colony and now a largely autonomous territory.

The United States has a long history of buying territory from neighbours to expand the nation rather than through military conquest. It has previously floated the idea of a Greenland purchase several times, going back to the 19th century without success. However, with Greenland becoming increasingly strategically valuable in the race for the Arctic, in addition to its command of the North Atlantic and vast untapped mineral wealth, there has been growing interest in Washington to acquire the island.

Visiting Berlin on Tuesday, Frederiksen met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who appears to have decided that implying a similarity between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is the best way to deal with Washington. It’s a high-risk strategy, but the German leader may be feeling braver than usual, given he will almost certainly be out of a job in three weeks when his party is widely predicted to flop in the federal elections.

Scholz, in a segment of his speech on Ukraine, which German media notes was likely intended for President Trump, said, “inviolability of borders is a fundamental principle of international law… The principle must apply to everyone… Borders must not be moved by force”. At this point, Scholz switched from German to English and added, simply: “To whom it may concern.”

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Germany Declares Solidarity With Greenland Against Trump, France Floats Deploying Troops

When did France get an Army that could be deployed?

[The_Reader_David]

There's a problem with the headline:  Greenland hasn't made any pronouncements with which to express solidarity. Denmark has objected. Greenland has autonomy and the right to call a vote on independence from Denmark, which it probably would have called if its economy did not depend on Danish subsidies.  We don't know what the Greenlanders (other than a few youths on TikTok who expressed enthusiasm for Trump's idea and their dislike of Danes) think of the idea.

I think absorbing Greenland as a US territory is probably a non-starter, but an independent Greenland with a Compact of Free Association with the US like the old Pacific Trust Territories, and the US putting more money in development and defense funds (including mining for rare earths and lithium) than the Danes do would probably be attractive to the Greenlanders and would give us essentially all of the strategic advantages of actually acquiring the island, including veto over China or any other hostile power having even an economic presence, the ability to site more bases there and the like. 

[Free Vulcan]

Please Europe, go ahead and give us a reason to dump NATO, let you deal with the Russians.

[Timber Rattler]

All the smart Germans must have been killed off during World War II, except those captured and co-opted into U.S. service during Operation Paperclip.