Timothy Birdnow

Here is what hs wanted all along; he wants the U.S. to have total access to Greenland without haing to crawl to Denmark every time we want to build a base or station forces or whatnot.

And this is the deal that is being negotiated now; full access. Talk of annexation - voluntary or not - was Trump's negotiating tool to force the Danes to quit playing footsie with the Chicoms and Russians and let us defend the island and the GIUK Gap properly. (That's the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap, fyi. The open water connecting the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and only really opne waters in the Arctic.)

Last summer Denmark expanded U.S. access to Greenland to stave off Trump, and now they are going to have to do so again.

BTW The title of this is a paraphrasing of the last line from the great Peter Sellers' movie Dr. Strangelove and is spoken by George C. Scott's character General Turgis.

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