President Donald Trump has announced that he has worked out a 'framework of a future deal' regarding Greenland with the leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the president said he was asking for territory that was "cold and poorly located."
He said the U.S. had effectively saved Europe during World War II and even declared of NATO: "It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades."
Bob Maginnis is a national defense analyst and president of Maginnis Strategies, LLC. He says he talked to someone at Davos.
"I'm thinking that the framework is going to be something similar to what we have with Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. And basically we have an eternal lease. We give them a check for a little less than $5,000 a month which they never cash. But we use it as we see fit and will forever more. And so I suspect that something similar is what we're going to get in Greenland."
Trump sees Greenland as an essential player in his plan to build a “Golden Dome” missile defense system similar to the one employed in Israel right now.
“Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are currently being spent on Security Programs having to do with ‘The Dome,’ including for the possible protection of Canada, and this very brilliant, but this highly complex system can only work at its maximum potential and efficiency, because of angles, metes, and bounds, if this Land is included in it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Maginnis says it isn't necessary to own Greenland to accomplish Trump's strategic goals.
"No not at all, as long as we have a vested interest with guarantees, and we have a footprint there that can disrupt anyone that is trying to kick us out, then I don't see a problem. Like I say it's like Guantanamo Cuba."
