{"id":104985,"date":"2026-09-24T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104985"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:41:15","slug":"the-greenland-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-greenland-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits to US national security from the Greenland agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure some in the Canadian relic media will try to spin the US-Greenland-Denmark agreement as somehow threatening to Canadian sovereignty, but if it does in some way it’s clearly not the main focus from the US viewpoint<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump diplays the Greenland security deal with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.<\/p>\n

Photo via CDR Salamander<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve kept up reasonably steady reporting the last couple of years on Greenland<\/a>. I was never quite sure where it would come out, but I was confident that it would be \u2014 non-inclusive \u2014 in between the two extremes we heard coming out of the overly excitable and narrowly sourced commentariat of the U.S. invading or the U.S. being kicked out … and it did.<\/p>\n

I have to give a nod to our Australian friend Liz Buchanan who gave some great observations on the issue on the Midrats Podcast<\/em> back in September of 2025<\/a> and January of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full text of the agreement can be found here<\/a> if you want to read it in detail, but let’s stick to the big pixels, as it is really a good news story for everyone … especially NATO.<\/p>\n

Rod Martin<\/a> created a great executive summary … I’m just going to steal it.<\/p>\n

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Bravo Zulu to the team that kept working this issue. From a national security point of view, everyone got the most important things they wanted \u2014 that’s what matters.<\/p>\n

As we like to do here, let’s go to the chartroom.<\/p>\n

We should start with something I posted five days ago over on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’m sure some in the Canadian relic media will try to spin the US-Greenland-Denmark agreement as somehow threatening to Canadian sovereignty, but if it does in some way it’s clearly not the main focus from the US viewpoint: We’ve kept up reasonably steady reporting the last couple of years on Greenland. I was never quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,84,28,5,53,13],"tags":[247,273,432,1037,724,220],"class_list":["post-104985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-government","category-media","category-military","category-politics","category-usa","tag-arctic","tag-denmark","tag-diplomacy","tag-donaldtrump","tag-greenland","tag-nato"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rjj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104989,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104985\/revisions\/104989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}