Ben Taub

It's that the U.S.

has more money and we're going to give it to you.

That's the pitch.

There's nothing about dignity or self-determination that really holds Trump.

or healthcare that makes any more sense.

As for Trump's case to the United States, it's, you know, first of all, he's always saying that we need to defend it against all the Russian and Chinese ships that are circling Greenland trying to take it militarily.

That's completely fiction.

It is absolutely the case that throughout the entire Cold War and to this day, Russian ballistic nuclear submarines go between Greenland and Iceland and the United Kingdom to get into the North Atlantic.

That is an extremely well defended focus of NATO, has been for 80 years.

There's all kinds of multi-domain military operations focused on tracking Russian submarines as they go past the east coast of Greenland to get into the North Atlantic.

But the Chinese ships are in the Russian part of the Arctic.

They're nowhere near Greenland.

And the Russian ships are focused on getting into the Atlantic Ocean, not in taking Greenland.

The east coast of Greenland, by which they pass anyway, is basically depopulated.

There's only 2,300 people on the east coast of Greenland, while 96% of the Greenlandic population lives on the west coast.

Because the way that the currents flow, you have on the west coast of Greenland, facing Canada and the United States, you have ports that have open water even in the winter.

And on the east coast of Greenland, you have water and wind blowing down from the Arctic.

And for the 100 kilometers out from the coastline, it's just solid ice.

So you can't even approach the Greenlandic mainland, let alone land on it or let alone have any military utility in sort of taking the eastern Greenland because there's no one there.

Yes.