US EditionTrump’s Greenland Grab Is Part of a New Space Race – and the Stakes Are Getting Higher
Greenland's location offers prime launch and surveillance advantages, making it central to U.S. Arctic and space strategies amid rising geostrategic competition, experts said.
- On Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump signalled at Davos that he will work out a deal with Denmark and Greenland to expand US Arctic presence around Pituffik Space Base.
- Greenland's geography offers prime conditions for polar and sun-synchronous launches as private space companies accelerate activity amid tightening global launch capacity.
- Legal and strategic reviews show the Outer Space Treaty strains under mega-constellations, while the US lacks ice-breaker ships and ice-strengthened vessels needed for Arctic operations.
- The push has strained NATO cohesion, prompting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to propose a 'Cyprus solution', but Denmark insists on Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination.
- Major powers now treat terrestrial and orbital realms as strategic assets, with Greenland's rising geopolitical weight linking Arctic shipping routes, climate monitoring, and space governance amid China and Russia's increased Arctic activity.
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Chicago Tribune
By SAM McNEIL, JUSTIN SPIKE and SYLVIE CORBET BRUSSELS (AP) — Tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to seize control of Greenland have created a rift in the once unbreakable bond between his MAGA movement (short for his slogan “Make America Great Again”) and the European far right. The rupture suggests that ideological alignment alone may not be enough to quell concerns among European nationalists about Trump’s interventionism abroad…
Donald Trump wants Greenland, although he seems willing to negotiate how and how much. Will the U.S. annex the Arctic island for the good or the bad? "You'll see," the U.S. president told the press. However, from Davos comes news of the pact that Trump would have reached with Rutte to concrete the role of NATO in the Arctic.Waiting for details and for Atlantic partners to accept it, Trump could try other formulas. Buy Greenland? But is it for sa…
Trump's Greenland goal puts spotlight on Arctic security
Donald Trump's aim to acquire to Greenland has put the spotlight on an issue that was previously the preserve of a few mid-level defence officials and military officers, but now his intervention has put Arctic security measures high up on the global political agenda.
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