Toward Latin America there are multiple options, but it’s likely a significant U.S. military footprint is destined for Greenland. If you read President Trump’s earlier announcement you might note:
…”We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction.”
This announcement comes directly after President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a review of NATO forces in Europe with the expressed intention of drawing down the U.S. footprint. The Pentagon announced a six-month review of US forces in Europe in June, directing US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, the head of US European Command, to assess future force requirements.
According to media, “The proposed reduction could involve around 25,000 troops, which is roughly one-third of the approximately 80,000 US service members currently stationed in Europe. Some officials involved in the discussions have indicated that the figure could be considerably higher, potentially reaching 40,000, or about half of the American military presence on the continent, according to NBC News.”
Germany is the largest American military hub on the continent, with around 36,000 US troops. Italy hosts about 12,000 US troops and several major air bases. Spain, meanwhile, provides important air and naval facilities in the country’s south. These would be the bases most likely to see significant withdrawal. All three nations are a hot mess of political manipulation, economic turmoil, internal friction and opposition to the U.S. national security framework.
Revisit President Trump and Marco Rubio’s National Security Strategy:
[President Trump] – […] The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
[…] The Trump Administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to suppress opposition. A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes. This is strategically important to the
United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.
[…] Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter. {SOURCE}
Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio wrote that outline.
So, North American military bases will essentially look like this:
Depending on from where one looks at this newly developing map, what a year ago looked like Fort Greenland protecting the NE quadrant and sealanes of Fortress America now could be seen as:
from the EU – envelopment by Russia and US Greenland, squeezing and limiting Europe’s military and trade options
from Canada – a new front opened in response to Carney’s positioning them as Cuba-North to threated, infiltrate, annoy the US
from Brussels – a US controlled chokepoint that potentially cuts off shipping access between EuroNato and their newly embraced cousin Canada’s resources
from Ukraine – a barrier to receiving all those new “SnowGeese” Canadian drones for the next 100 years (“Just wire us the money, Mark. We know what to do with it.”)
I propose instead of using Snow Mexicans to describe TPB Canadians we now use Snow Cubans or Snow Marxists.
The biggest problem I see for this is troop morale. The shedding bases in Europe all have extensive housing and related support facilities for families and all of them are accompanied tour posts. Our only current base in Greenland, Pituffik, is “unaccompanied, short term rotation.” Zero facilities for families and NO PETS ALLOWED.
tell the truth, do you not think President Trump has that planned? really? come on man this is where the smart people hang out.
The world is changing. President Trump is assuring a soft landing for all of us. He’s essentially putting up the fences on this hemisphere and letting the Europeans deal with their mess. He’s packing up the toys and moving them to our yard. The neighborhood is getting tough. Best to get our affairs in order.
I’m confident this is a good move from a military perspective.
I’m not so sure how it will turn out for military personnel who are stationed in Greenland.
Time will tell.
Keep this handy for in a couple of years, we’ll be hearing all about how the Americans have ruined the lives and culture of the nature loving Inuits.
Social issues
LGBTQ rights
LGBTQ rights in Greenland are some of the most extensive in the world, relatively similar to those in Denmark. Transgender people may change the gender designation on their official identity documents. A law passed in 2016 by decree allows legal gender changes based on self-determination.[237][238] Since 2010, Greenland has had laws prohibiting hate speech against LGBTQ+ persons. Parliament passed a Law on Equal Treatment and Anti-Discrimination in 2024, which prohibits all discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, [and] gender characteristics”, among other characteristics. The law also creates an Equal Treatment Board to manage discrimination complaints and an Equality Council to promote non-discrimination.[239]
Compulsory contraception of Inuit women
Main article: Spiral case
In the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the population was increasing, 4,500 Greenland Inuit women and girls (roughly half of all fertile females) were fitted with intrauterine devices (IUDs) by Danish doctors. Sometimes girls (as young as 12) were taken directly from school to have these devices inserted, without their parents’ permission. The procedure was also carried out on some Inuit girls at boarding schools in Denmark. As a result, over eight years’ time, from 1966 to 1974, fertility rates in Greenland fell from 7 to 2.3 children per woman, the fastest fertility transition on record in human history.[234]
In 2022 Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke announced an investigation into the decisions leading to the practice and its implementation.[235] Greenlandic doctors also carried out the same illegal procedures on several Inuit women after Greenland took control of its health care system in 1991.[236]
The rate of suicide in Greenland is very high. According to a 2010 census, Greenland holds the highest suicide rate in the world. [221][222]
In 2021, a study reported that there were 45 suicides, corresponding to a rate of 81 per 100,000 inhabitants annually. This was approximately eight times higher than in Denmark.[223] Another significant social issue is a high rate of alcoholism.[224] The rate of alcohol consumption peaked in the 1980s, when it was twice as high as in Denmark; by 2010 it had fallen slightly below that of Denmark. Alcohol prices are far higher in Greenland than in Denmark, meaning that consumption has a large socio-economic impact.[77][225]
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS has been high, reaching a peak in the 1990s when the number of AIDS-related deaths was also relatively high.