The White House weighs how to acquire Greenland

美国盯上格陵兰岛

Economist

2026-01-09

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  • All right, let's unpack this.

  • That's it.

  • We are diving deep into a singular moment of um geopolitical madness that unfolded in early 2026.

  • A campaign that felt less like modern international diplomacy

  • and well more like a chapter ripped from a 19th century playbook of Empire.

  • That's a good way to put it.

  • So our mission today is a deep dive into the extraordinary source material

  • surrounding former President Donald Trump's very aggressive push to acquire Greenland.

  • And we have to stress this right up front, you know, this was not just political theater.

  • Not at all.

  • We're analyzing a documented effort that moved and moved very quickly

  • from what's seemed like an absurd suggestion to a very, very real military and diplomatic crisis.

  • Right.

  • This deep dive I mean it's fundamentally about understanding the new rules of power politics.

  • It's about how national security, resource hunger and these aggressive displays of strength

  • can just fundamentally challenge the established order.

  • And the fragility of alliances, especially NATO.

  • Especially NATO.

  • To really grasp the shock wave this created, I think we have to start with the specific context.

  • We're talking January 2026 and Greenland, which is, you know, a self-governing territory