Subject: Re: Why Greenland?
Trump only knows one negotiating style and that's to use a baseball bat inside the China shop. Who knows what the Danes did along the way?

At any rate, what is needed to be built there is pretty obvious.

He's not shy about being impolitic when he thinks people are wrong - so if they had asked the Danes and they had said "no," either in 2019-2020 or in his second term, we certainly would have known about it. It seems far more likely that he went straight to "baseball bat" rather than asking nicely, with predictable results.

There's no reason whatsoever that Greenland and Denmark wouldn't have let us build all the bases we want up there. There's already an agreement that gives us the ability to do that in three areas up there - but we've only built one base, and reduced staffing in the other base from by more than 90%. Both Denmark and Greenland had every reason the world to welcome us building more:

https://warontherocks.com/2019...