Greenland: France to Occupy the Island to Fight Trump’s Takeover Ambitions? Peter Koenig.
“The Gallic cock has crowed that, if the sovereignty of Denmark is affected, the consequences would be unprecedented. Ooh, what will they do?! Kidnap POTUS? [ President of the United States] Nuke the US? Course not. They’ll just sh*t their pants and give up Greenland. And that would be a great European precedent.” – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
French President Macron has announced he is moving troops to Greenland, to defend the autonomous Island and its owner, the Kingdom of Denmark, in case President Trump would attempt to take over Greenland.
It looks like other EU countries have done or are planning to do likewise, but they are not bragging about it as Macron does.
The world, the Western world, that is, could not become more ridiculous than that. Macron, a half-baked President of a half-baked country, threatens to attack, as in using weaponry against the US of A’s military? One or several European NATO member(s) – as divided as they are, the EU and its proxy, the European NATO — would dare to attack NATO’s “father” the United States?
Is this going to evolve into a conflict, as in one or more NATO countries against another NATO country, or several G7 members against another G7? Western absurdity seems limitless. George Orwell could have learned a lesson.
Would maybe Macron dare to nuke the Pentagon forces? Former Russian President Medvedev is probably not far from the truth by saying, “They’ll just sh*t their pants and give up Greenland.”
The French President did not say how many troops, warships, warplanes, vehicles, tanks, guns, he would send to Greenland. But he did say that
“French land, sea, and air forces are heading for Greenland to rebuff threats of annexation by the US and that he would stand alongside the Danish dependency.”
Why does Macron make such nonsensical statements? Does he want to scare Trump, impress the French people and scare all of Europe – and the world, over a possibly French-induced WWIII – in defence of Greenland’s autonomy? European “leaders” (sic) like Macron are increasingly seen as a big joke.
Well, Trump has already responded. It appears that eight (8) EU countries are “fiercely” against the US takeover of Greenland. They include Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. Trump has declared on his TruthSocial platform that as of 1 February 2026 a 10% import tax will be levied on imports of all merchandise from these countries. And if the “resistance” persists, the tax will increase to 25% by 1 June 2026. This is in addition to the 15% general import taxes Trump has decreed for goods from the EU, a tariff already applied.
Nobody, of course, likes King Trump’s expansionist aspirations, especially when Denmark’s Prime Minister says, “Greenland is not for sale”, and Greenlanders want to keep their autonomy.
However, Denmark’s opposition to a US takeover might be seen as “the bark is worse than the bite.” After all, during WWII, after German occupation of Denmark in April 1940, the Danish Ambassador to the United States agreed “In the name of the King” with the United States, authorising the US to “defend the Danish colonies on Greenland from German aggression.”
This led to the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement and the creation of the Thule US air base, which was a joint US-Danish operation in Thule, the northwestern tip of Greenland. Meaning that the base was – maybe still is – flying the US and the Danish flag. The agreement also granted the US the right to expand its military presence in Greenland far beyond World War II – as we all know, up to this day and likely much longer. Nobody in Denmark has even insinuated that the US base should be evacuated.
To the contrary, in April 2023, the Thule base was moved just a few kilometres east to Greenland’s mainland (still considered the northwestern tip of Greenland) and renamed to Pituffik Space Base. All with the agreement of Denmark. And this, while President Trump’s Greenland aspirations were known since his first term in 2017-2021. These recent developments indicate that Denmark is basically happy with the US presence on its territory, i.e., in Greenland, probably for the same reasons of European-style fear: The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.
Hence, the current Danish bark may indeed be worse than her bite.
How strong are the ties between Greenland and Mother Denmark? A 2025 poll indicated a majority of 84% of Greenlanders would support independence from Denmark, with 9% opposing. The total population of Greenland is about 55,700 (2025).
According to a January 2025 poll, after Trump declared that Greenland should belong to the US for “national security” reasons, 85% of Greenlanders do not want to become part of the United States.
Now, this could possibly change with a “little help” through money-flowing. Nowadays, in our ultra-capitalist, materialistic world, where ethics, virtues and moral principles are trampled on the ground, when dollar bills are held up as an incentive – a lot, if not all is possible. The Trump administration had already indicated that perhaps US$ 10,000 per citizen, a bit more for some, and maybe a lot more for some stubborn politicians – a million or two? — might turn the dream of Greenland’s sovereignty around.
Say with an average per person payout of some US$ 50,000 (a wild guess), the total cost for this huge, highly strategic and resources-rich island would be about US$ 2.8 to US$ 3 billion. And adding another few billion for the Danish Kingdom, covertly, of course, could possibly buy this jewel of an island for the US for something like US$ 10 to 20 billion? That’s peanuts for the master of fabricating dollar “wealth” – or national debt, never to be repaid to anyone but the US herself, an illusionary debt.
Besides, any “armed conflict” to take over Greenland would cost the US considerably more than 20 billion, plus a lot of blood, on both sides.
Now, there appears to be some opposition in the US public as well as in Congress to Trump’s expansionist dreams. But how long will that last, when all the benefits of Greenland, Venezuela, and others to come, are publicly explained and propagated in full colour?
We are living in a wild, wild, chaotic world. Of course, hardly anybody would seriously like to see Trump’s empire expansion, absorbing Greenland, Venezuela, and, who knows, how many more Western Hemisphere countries may be on the list. Yet, as things go, Greenland may become the 51st State before Canada does. How is that for a step-by-step New World Order?
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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