Whither Greenland
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails
The polar map of the world shows why Greenland is of strategic importance to defend the United States from Russia, about on a par with Alaska.
Pull the military out of Europe and put them in Greenland. Not tanks amd troops but bombers and missiles. Radar. Submarines. Long range drones controlled from AWACs airplanes. Snowmobile mounted lasers. Whatever.
Germany can have the tanks, the tanks weren’t defending us anyway. Europe is on its own. America First.
This is genius. I wonder who thought of it. No better still, I wonder who sold the idea to Trump?
Makes sense.
Might also be cool – as it were – if we can sell Hollywood on Greenland being the latest “in” thing, like the Pacific Diet.
Not out of any strategic imperative. Just because I want to see most of Hollywood stuck out on a glacier, like those “influencers” from the “Fyre Festival”.
January 14th, 2026 at 12:57 pm
The Air Force has had a base, primarily for weather related purposes, in Thule, Greenland since before I was in. Used to be a joke that senior NCO’s would make to junior enlisted personnel; “I’ll send you to Thule”, as reference to discipline.
January 14th, 2026 at 3:21 pm
Somebody in the White House must read SITD. Remember my suggestion last week to cut off federal funding to insurrection states?
https://justthenews.com/trump-says-he-will-cut-federal-payments-sanctuary-cities-next-month-over-immigration-policies
January 20th, 2026 at 3:07 pm
My take on this is similar to PowerLine’s; Trump demanding Greenland is one of his dumbest ideas since sleeping with Stormy Daniels. People with a lot of land and a stagnant economy would jump at the chance to increase the size and scope of U.S. bases. No need to pick fights, especially since U.S. bureaucrats don’t speak the language or the culture of Greenland.