Bloomberg Discovers Imperialism, Blames Trump
Bloomberg Politics rings the alarm, claiming Trump's hypothetical interest in Greenland (following his Venezuela destabilization rhetoric) spells 'trouble' for Europe and NATO. The article paints this as a uniquely Trumpian brand of geopolitical thuggery. What it omits, however, is that coveting Greenland for its strategic location and mineral wealth isn't new; the US offered to buy it in 1946 for
$100 million. Fast forward, and the US has a military base there, Thule Air Base, operational since 1951, a Cold War relic asserting continuous strategic interest in the Arctic. So, the 'logic' Bloomberg bemoans isn't a Trump innovation, but a consistent, bipartisan thread in American foreign policy: annex what you need, destabilize what you can't. The only difference now is who's saying the quiet
part out loud. How many centuries of unbridled resource acquisition and regime change does it take for mainstream media to realize this isn't a bug, but a feature?