{"id":90102,"date":"2026-01-14T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90102"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:30:17","slug":"90102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90102","title":{"rendered":"Whither Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png 760w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-289x300.png 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Pull the military out of Europe and put them in Greenland.&nbsp; Not tanks amd troops but bombers and missiles. Radar. Submarines. Long range drones controlled from AWACs airplanes. Snowmobile mounted lasers. Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany can have the tanks, the tanks weren&#8217;t defending us anyway.&nbsp; Europe is on its own. America First.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is genius. I wonder who thought of it.\u00a0 No better still,\u00a0 I wonder who sold the idea to Trump?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes sense.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Might also be cool &#8211; as it were &#8211; if we can sell Hollywood on Greenland being the latest &#8220;in&#8221; thing, like the Pacific Diet. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not out of any strategic imperative. Just because I want to see most of Hollywood stuck out on a glacier, like those &#8220;influencers&#8221; from the &#8220;Fyre Festival&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Fulda Gap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90106,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90102\/revisions\/90106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}