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Europe’s Last Colonial Fantasy is Over: Why Denmark Must Hand Greenland to Trump Now
Europe is a continent of museums and bad political ideas, incapable of defending itself, let alone the Arctic. Denmark had a chance to cut a deal in 2025. Now, due to hubris, they are about to lose everything for nothing.
It is time for Europe to wake up from its coma and accept its reality. For decades, the Old Continent has demonstrated that "European Power" is an oxymoron. History has taught us a painful lesson: When Europeans actually possess power, they tend to use it for two things, surrendering to tyranny or collaborating with evil.
Some may say England and France are the great exception, but those countries no longer the leaders of 'Europe' - Germany is.
From disastrous migration policies to stagnant economies and stifling regulations, Europe falls behind the United States in almost every metric that matters. But nowhere is this failure more glaring than in the military realm. The remnants of the European nations lack the will, the motivation, and the belief that there is anything left worth fighting for. And deep down, they know they lack the ability to fight even if they wanted to.
Which brings us to the elephant, or rather, the iceberg, in the room: Greenland.
The Trump Pincer Movement
Donald Trump is currently executing a geopolitical masterclass that European bureaucrats are too slow to understand. On one hand, he is forcing European NATO members to pay up, demanding they rebuild their own militaries to face the Russian threat from the East. He is telling them: "Stop relying on American taxpayers to protect your borders."
But simultaneously, he is coming from the West to strip them of their most strategic asset. This is not a contradiction; it is a liquidation sale. Trump realizes that Europe is incapable of holding strategic ground.
The Danish Delusion
This is the stage where Denmark needs to look in the mirror and admit the truth: Defending Greenland is too big for you. With Russia militarizing the Arctic and China hungry for resources, the idea that Copenhagen, a capital with a negligible military footprint, can protect the world’s largest island is a joke.
The Danes missed their exit ramp. They should have offered a deal back in 2025. The proposal should have been simple and pragmatic:
It would have been the deal of the century. Denmark would have secured its economy for generations and offloaded a defense liability it cannot handle. But they didn't do it.
The Price of Hubris
Instead of pragmatism, we got European hubris. We got lectures about "sovereignty" from a continent that has effectively surrendered its own borders. Because Denmark refused to negotiate when the offer was friendly, they now face a hostile takeover.
The reality of Realpolitik is cruel. When a superpower needs a territory for its existential defense (and make no mistake, the U.S. views the Arctic as an existential frontier), it will take it. Denmark is now in a position where they are likely to lose 100% of Greenland’s strategic value, but instead of a check for hundreds of billions of dollars, they will get nothing but a bruised ego.
Europe needs to let go. Greenland belongs to the American sphere of influence. The sooner Copenhagen signs the deed, the less humiliating the inevitable transfer will be.