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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Carl Higby: What if I told you there is a new global alignment? And I want you to hear me out, okay? Just hear me out first.
Let's do the Greenland component.
Greenland has been asking Denmark for help securing itself against Russia and China for over 20 years. They haven't done anything, nor has anyone from any side of the EU on the NATO side.
So case in point, Germany only sent like 14, I think it was literally 14 people, when Trump threatened to invade. So you see the commitment from the EU.
America, though, has had a treaty post-World War II to put bases basically anywhere they want. But we're not going to overly invest if it's not U.S. soil. But what if we were to acquire it?
This would increase American soil by over 20% and enter what we would then call NORCOM or Northern Command, where our radar could actually detect an ICBM from Russia or China 20 minutes earlier than it does now because the path would be over the North Pole.
This has also serious global impacts to our foes.
We'll do China first. China owns 80% to 85% of the global EV battery industry and produces items for our EVs here in America at a ratio of 6 to 1 than we do internally.
If America had access to Greenland, we could break that dependency within a year.
We also would be able to produce most of our own chips, too, just from the rare earth minerals that are in Greenland.
This would de-incentivize China from taking Taiwan because that's really the only reason they want it for the semiconductor market, which would hinder America if China controlled that. All right? Stay with me here.
Also, our acquisition thatcould break China's northern Silk Road and secure a northern shipping channel, cutting off trade routes for China and Russia, but also giving us more secure options that could be taxed for other nations, i.e. making our shipping expenses go down dramatically.
This would essentially turn Greenland into America's 12th carrier battle group as well. You can't sink it either.
And in its current proposal, as the annex proposal stands, Trump offered every person in Greenland 100 grand. That would cost us... There's only 57,000 people. It costs us $5.7 billion.
Compare that to the over $8 billion price tag for a new aircraft carrier. Don't even get me started on the rest of the fleet.
See, Trump's not shooting from the hip here. This would allow America to launch a fighter jet from American soil that could touch Beijing and Moscow, which Moscow, along with China, has been looking in to take Greenland for a while now for the same reasons.