Denmark Buys F-35s From US While Trump Threatens Greenland
While Al Jazeera frames this as Denmark's prudent response to 'Trump's threats to acquire Greenland,' one has to wonder if Lockheed Martin provided the ghostwriting for the Danish defense minister’s press release. The article conveniently ignores that the US—not Russia or China—has been the most consistent destabilizing factor regarding Greenland's territorial integrity, with President Trump's
actual, not hypothetical, 2019 inquiry into buying the self-governing Danish territory. So the solution to a US-originated problem is... more US military hardware? A classic strategic pivot (into Lockheed Martin's profit column). This isn't 'Arctic defense'; it's a guaranteed purchase order for a US defense contractor, disguised as strategic necessity. How many hospitals or schools could
Copenhagen build with $4.26 billion instead of 16 more F-35s whose primary 'threat' is speculative, and whose 'defense' seems aimed at preemptively deterring their own NATO ally? (One might wonder about the timing, given the ongoing global escalations that make defense spending an easy sell.)