US Talk of Greenland 'Grab' Is Only New to DW Readers
Deutsche Welle warns that recent US discussions about acquiring Greenland are 'damaging NATO.' This 'sudden' US interest, portrayed as a recent slip-up by Trump, ignores a century of similar aspirations. The US tried to buy Greenland from Denmark in 1867 and again in 1946 for $100 million. Seems the only thing that's new here is DW's short-term memory, or their editorial team's willingness to
label textbook imperialist ambitions as a 'slip-up' rather than a consistent national objective. Perhaps DW is more accustomed to reporting on 'humanitarian interventions' abroad than direct territorial ambitions. It raises the question: why is the US talking about 'buying' ice and minerals a threat to NATO, but funding regime change or maintaining hundreds of military bases globally is just
'stability operations'? One might wonder if NATO is only damaged when the empire shows its hand too bluntly, rather than through palatable proxies.