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The official justification is the Golden Dome missile defense system, which supposedly requires sovereignty over Greenlandic territory for technical efficacy. Trump himself said the system depends on angles, metes, and bounds that only work if Greenland is included.

The 1951 agreement already lets the U.S. build whatever it wants at Pituffik Space Base. The administration wants sovereignty because access involves asking permission.

Sovereignty eliminates the veto.

The rare earth angle is real. Greenland sits on massive deposits. China controls most of global production and nearly all of NATO's processing capacity. The strategic dependency exists.

The solution, apparently, is to fracture the alliance responsible for containing China's actual military expansion.

Brilliant.

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France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK, and Denmark issued a joint statement: Greenland belongs to its people.Denmark is spending billions on Arctic patrol vessels and a new command headquarters in Nuuk. European troops are deploying for something called Operation Arctic Endurance.

The EU Defense Commissioner warned that a U.S. invasion would be the end of NATO.

European defense ministers now openly discussing Article 5 invocations against the United States.

Let that sink in.