Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions at a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.
Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief.
In one back-and-forth, Hegseth did provide an eyebrow-raising answer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., asked whether the Pentagon has developed plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.
Have they said why they’re so obsessed over Greenland? I don’t mean why you think they want it, i mean has any of them ever said why?
Significant presence in the Arctic circle which may become more valuable with some climate change and/or closer relationship with Russia.
At least that’s what I’d guess. Similar story with Canada, more land to have a better chance to respond to climate change.
The Mercator projection made Greenland look very big on the map.
People tend to equate when a country or empire has the most territory as it being at it’s height.
It’s a vanity thing. He wants to see the words ‘The United States of America was at it’s territorial peak under President Donald Trump’ echo through history.
The word on the street is that Peter Thiel and friends wan’t it for a tech bro network state, with no regulation on AI (as in LLMs) and other tech fantasies.
Don’t have a link, but it’s public known that Thiel and friends wan’t it, and that they seem to have the man in power in on it.
That’s interesting. I haven’t heard that yet. I can see them thinking like that.
Also went a while before I heard it. Here are some links:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i-went-to-greenland-to-try-to-buy-it-meet-the-founder-who-wants-to-re-create-mars-on-earth/
https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-backed-startup-that-wanted-to-buy-greenland-is-thrilled-that-trump-wants-to-buy-greenland-2000548415
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/here-s-why-musk-bezos-gates-and-thiel-really-all-want-a-piece-of-greenland/ar-AA1BQNhB
Thank you!
I think they’ve said for strategic military reasons (don’t know what’s wrong with all the EU bases we have) but likely it’s because of natural resources. Typical authoritarian shit.
ice, global warming, melty melt, geologists would have a rsging boner whats there becoming accessible
Maybe oil & gas or mineral geologists. Scientific geologists, like all other scientists, are horrified at the stark changes due to global warming. A few years ago it rained for the first time on record at summit station, historically it was always snow. Now it’s warm enough to rain.