I genuinely don’t understand. No one across the spectrum I have followed or dug into has any reasonable understanding or argument for this. They’re all against it. The scary thing is that 1/3 of Americans are for it. It’s don’t understand. Denmark has accommodated everything we’ve ever demanded of them when it comes to Greenland. The only rationale is to be able to place nuclear missiles in Greenland (which is weird. We’ve had an arsenal of nukes in Turkey for half a century) and never have to worry about some radical change in government challenging their placement. Every other argument I’ve seen is built on a denial of reality as to how Denmark reacts to U.S. actions.

The other reason I can see is that the U.S. wants absolute control over everything in the western hemisphere, which would eventually means taking over British and French and Dutch Caribbean and nearby territories like Devil’s Island and the Falklands.

The last reason is just Because. The U.S. has bullied its European vassals for so long and has been so successful in continuing to extract more resources from them in the last five years because of the Ukraine war that they are just trying to see how far they can test these spineless fucks. If they take it and everything stays the same, they win. If Europe pushes back, then they still have 90% of Danish territory and resources, and whatever else Europe is willing to do for the U.S. No one is leaving NATO. They didn’t break up NATO when Turkey invaded Greek Cyprus. They’re not going to leave over the indispensable NATO partner doing something similar.