Caspian Report: Why Trump Is Obsessed With Annexing Greenland

Trump on Greenland: “It cannot go on the way it is. It’s not gonna go on the way it is. I’ll make a statement. It’s not gonna happen. So they’re going there, and it’s purely friendship … people from Greenland are asking us to go there.” pic.twitter.com/BdEEMSBOMS

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025

Trump: “We are dealing with a lot of people from Greenland that would like to see something happen with respect to being properly protected and properly taken care of. They’re calling us, we’re not calling them.” pic.twitter.com/Nx4pXrRixc

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025

The Greenland Question is about who will control the 22nd century.

Im1776:

“Suddenly an ambitious vision of Canada’s future in the Arctic has emerged from an obscure network of institutions, think tanks, universities, and government bureaus. The most vocal proponent of the project has been Irvin Studin, a widely respected geopolitical scientist. Studin has outlined a vision that resembles speculative fiction. In particular, he has repeatedly called to move the Canadian capital from Ottawa to Whitehorse in order to place Canada “within Asia through the Arctic.” Whitehorse would become the Singapore of the North, a convenient meeting point where huge deals could be hammered out by mutually interested parties. Whitehorse is 8 hours away from St-Petersburg, 7 hours from D.C., and 8 hours from Beijing. 

Just as vast fortunes were made in the Yukon gold rush 150 years ago — including the Trump family fortune — new fortunes will emerge from the Arctic. According to Studin, cities like Whitehorse will become the culinary, artistic, cultural and technological engines of the next two centuries. He calls for a settlement of 10 million inhabitants in the Canadian Arctic circle along with a further 20 million in the periarctic — a huge increase from the 140,000 residents it has today comparable – given the extremely inhospitable climatic conditions — to a project for settling Mars. …

The Arctic is the answer to the future of Canada’s relationship with the United States. A powerful, prosperous Canada, capable of defending and asserting itself, holding the ‘Northern flank’ of the United States, is a much more attractive vision to the emergent political order in America than the vestigial remnant of British North America.

The opening of the Northern frontier will create new opportunities for deepening the US-Canada relationship and ultimately lay the foundations of a new continental consciousness. The taming of the Arctic is an enormously-ambitious technical, political, and aesthetic challenge in which life will need to be reinvented from the ground up. Massive nuclear icebreakers will have to be built, entire cities will have to be dreamt up, ports and maritime installations will need to be erected, and wells will need to be dug deep into the Arctic ice. American capital, engineers, scientists and adventurers will have to be part of this Promethean effort. Here is the fork in the road.”