The United States is preparing a substantial expansion of its military footprint in Greenland, with President Donald Trump announcing plans for two major bases under a new security agreement with Denmark.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said the arrangement would give Washington extensive powers to protect North America and contribute to the defence of Europe and other regions.
“We will have the complete ability to do what is necessary to defend the American continent, and also Europe and other places,” Trump said.
He also declared that Washington would prevent hostile powers from establishing a military presence or making strategically sensitive investments on the Arctic island without US approval.
“No US adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military presence in Greenland any more, or make sensitive investments there without our express written approval,” Trump said.
Following his UN address, Trump signed the agreement alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
The planned American expansion is expected to involve Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, where the US previously operated the Bluie West One airbase, and Mestersvig on Greenland’s eastern coast, currently used as a Danish military outpost.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Its position between the Arctic and North Atlantic gives it considerable strategic importance for defence, surveillance and military operations across the northern hemisphere.
The US already maintains Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, previously called Thule Air Base. The facility, the Pentagon’s northernmost installation, performs missile-warning, missile-defence and space-surveillance functions.
American forces have operated in Greenland since World War II, with a 1951 agreement between Washington and Copenhagen establishing the legal framework for the US military presence. Numerous American installations operated across the island during the Cold War before the footprint was eventually reduced to Pituffik.
The latest agreement follows months of friction between Washington and its European allies over Greenland’s future.
Trump had repeatedly argued that the United States should control the strategically located territory and declined to exclude military force as a means of securing it. Those comments prompted strong responses from Denmark and Greenland, whose leaders maintained that the island was not for sale and that Greenlanders alone should determine its future.
The new security arrangement instead significantly increases Washington’s military role while leaving Greenland within the Kingdom of Denmark.
BREAKING – It’s official – President Trump signs security deal with Greenland and Denmark at UN
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President Trump Participates in a Trilateral Signing Event with the Prime Minister of Denmark and the Prime Minister of Greenland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4Ly8E8Jt4
We used to get our morning briefings that included the weather over refueling areas with the B-52’s, and the weather over Thule; not that we would actually make it to land in Thule, but we always surmised that Thule would be a radioactive melted crater by the time we got there, IF we arrived there at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451h8eQ5e4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w1KJQLBQm8
Colonisation 101
The USA now has the right to decide who cannot be anywhere near Geenland
Its called self determination apparently……
Gutless wonders. Look how Iran has stood up to the imperialists and you just bow down. If I was a Greenlander I’d be outraged and no doubt, many are.
Money talks (Foreign Aid to Greenland increased, with mineral wealth shared?..) and bullshit walks!
The bullshit often takes the form of ‘a deal’, with delusions of grandeur complete with the Dunning-Kruger Effect, whilst standing in the middle of a hardened Command Post posing as a Ball Room, or near the Arch of Drump enforcing The Peter Principle.
Have you seen the Marine One helicopter landing pad recently? It’s NOT FAA approved, and desecrates the Great Seal with aircraft oil.
Drump is a J3w, a Zionists and a self-serving lecherous parasite!
Many Yanks are holding out hope that the Mid-Term (s)Election will solve allll of their problems, but I doubt that they’ll even make it to November with Russian Poseidon Nuclear Torpedoes resting quietly off the coast of D.C. (District of (J3wish/Zionist) Criminals!
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/putin-says-russia-tested-poseidon-nuclear-capable-super-torpedo-2025-10-29/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrn3ebGb-48
On the Beach 1959…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN72cQkvWG8
On the Beach re-make 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6imEMekIt4
Other things to think about,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fad-DAsVCw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SKJHGdXdM
The biggest island on the planet with a popn less then 40,000. And the yanks have been there since 1951 and no one said a word. trump says we’re moving in and the world cuts up like a bunch of sooks who’ve missed out on their ice cream cos the bully took them first. There’s enough minerals and gas there to supply the planet for decades – the whole island is completely empty. Australia is the next biggest island on the planet and is mined extensively and no one says a word. Ive got a postcard from Greenland dated 1969 when my mum had a boyfriend on the USCG Burton Island. He sent me that postcard from Greenland. It shows the locals being helped by US sailors to move sheep by boat and everyone is smiling. If the Russians moved in no one would be smiling.
The majority of Greenlanders have clearly stated Rob they don’t want the US there or its expansion. This takes away their sovereignty as is the case here in NZ with US interference. This is classic US neo colonialism. Oh just a few Indians they wont mind “Trail of Tear”…..history repeating itself.
Yes the Yanks were so delighted having the Poms run their young country they started a revolution to kick them out.