— Feature, Musings —01.12.2026 04:22 PM
Trump is insane, but the Greenland thing is really, really insane
The military don’t start wars. Politicians do.
History is littered with proof of that. Old men, with political power, start a war, and young men with no power are sent to fight them. It’s an infinite cycle.
So, does Donald Trump, the oldest-ever president of the United States and now in his 80th year, really plan to wage war on Greenland, an ally of America and the West? He says he can and will.
Here are some of things Trump has said. They are direct quotes.
• “We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not.”
• “I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way we’re going to do it the hard way.”
• “One way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”
• “If we don’t [take over], Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.”
Trump has a very loose acquaintance with truth, so all of this could be fake news, to use the president’s preferred put-down. But it isn’t just Trump who has said these things. His White Office has issued this official statement: “The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilising the US military is always an option at the commander-in-chief’s disposal.”
And Trump’s Gollum-like Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, has been even more direct. Speaking to CNN a few days ago, Miller said that “the formal position of the US government that Greenland should be part of the US.” And, on whether that might lead to war, Miller said: “Nobody’s going to fight the US over the future of Greenland.”
The Europeans beg to differ. Seven of them issued an extraordinary joint statement last week, saying “Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.” Denmark, a longtime U.S. military ally, itself said it is “ready to defend” Greenland.
The country’s Defence Committee chair added that Trump’s stated goals “means war” and that Danish troops “would fight back.” Germany, for its part, has sent a warship to the area. And some European leaders are speaking openly of military confrontation, shutting down U.S. military bases in Europe, and cutting off trade.
It is worrying, of course. More significantly, however, Trump’s manifest destiny madness is against the rules and against common sense. Two reasons – one well-known, the other not so much.
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The military don’t start wars. Politicians do.
Well, the military-industrial complex was firmly behind Vietnam, not to mention a few other Middle East incursions
The military-industrial complex is different than the military. It and the deep state start them. All this sabre rattling about Greenland and Venezuela would be happening under Harris-they just would be quieter about it. As I have said, ad nauseam, Gore would have gone into Iraq.
Warren,
Every time one thinks that POS can’t possibly sink any lower, he defies sanity and comes up with something even more insane…shows he’s the reincarnation of YouKnowWhoTM.
I find it interesting to watch MAGA twist themselves into a pretzel to justify the global warmonger Trump 2.0, after pissing and moaning ad infinitum during the campaign about “no more wars” and leaving other countries to sort out their own problems.
Of course, this is only one of numerous hypocrisies of MAGA – each one of which reinforces the fact that, beneath it all, they really are just like the pipsqueak sidekicks of the big bully – who love to hide under the power of the bully while he beats up other people randomly, and do everything they can to placate the bully so they don’t incur their wrath themselves.
In other words, spineless twats.
I saw an opposition leader speak from there. He basically said that the Greenland folks should be able to decide their fate. Not T, not Denmark, not NATO. Sounds reasonable. Anyone who thinks Denmark is on the side of the angels needs to do a little research on the country’s relationship with the locals. We have an inconvenient past with the indigenous but we were not sterilizing them into the late 20th century.
https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/08/27/denmark-apologises-for-painful-legacy-of-forced-birth-control-in-greenland?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Martin,
You missed the ads for the First Nations’ class action settlement after forced sterilization. It stated in those ads that the last cases occurred in the 1980s. I almost fell out of my chair. How could the provinces and territories have permitted that, and why wasn’t Ottawa weighing in to prevent sterilization?
The ruling that the imposition of the Emergencies Act was illegal is very interesting. For one thing it shows that the total fear of Doug Ford to get involved in the Freedom Convoy event means he didn’t do his job and neither did the mayor of Ottawa.
I hope Tamara Lich and Barber will be compensated and that people realize Carney advised Trudeau on freezing bank accounts.