Europe Pretends to Own Greenland

by J.B. Shurk

 The most detestable thing about European-constructed “globalism” is its pretense. It pretends that man-made “climate change” will kill everyone unless we allow bureaucratic busybodies to regulate all economic exchange. It pretends that Russia is about to conquer all of Europe, even though all of Europe has been mocking Russia as a third-world paper tiger for the last thirty years. It pretends that the mass invasion of foreigners from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia is completely natural, impossible to prevent, and that acceptance and toleration is the “humanitarian” thing to do. It pretends that its native citizens are “racists” for wishing to preserve their own cultures in their own lands. Even while it welcomes Islamic civilizational conquest throughout the continent, European “globalism” pretends that its mangled, mismanaged, and misremembered civilization remains the central and paramount expression of enlightened progress in the world.

To outsiders not imbued with a sense of European entitlement or burdened by Europe’s policy delusions, Europe is a mess. It is presently reconstituting itself into a self-hating-Islamocentric-parasitically-pluralistic-historically-illiterate morass of cultural meaninglessness. Europe’s movies and television shows regularly bowdlerize history by removing native Europeans from ancient tales. Europe’s suicide will be complete when every actor is non-white and every storyline reinforces the narrative that Muslims settled all the lands from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. These multicultural historical revisions are preposterous. Yet when native Brits point out that there were no African Celts during the time of Caesar’s invasion or Pakistani lords in the royal courts of the Middle Ages, the dis-United Kingdom sends social media “thought police” to harass and legally threaten anyone unwilling to pretend that history is offensive and must therefore be rewritten.

In matters of personal defense, Europe does nothing but pretend. Big, bad French president Emmanuel Macron, seriously terrifying U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer, and king kraut German chancellor Friedrich Merz rounded up Europe’s “coalition of the willing” in Paris recently to join hands with holdover-president Zelenskyy and stare down Russia’s President Putin with all the glowering determination that men wearing ten-thousand-dollar suits can bear. Although European elites mock us Americans as a bunch of ignorant, hick cowboys, the Paris summit did what it could to convey to the world that Europe’s most serious lawmen had formed a deadly posse that would not relent until every last Russian had been chased out of the European Union’s expanding plantation.

Yet aside from European leaders’ love for bloviation and their penchant for ratcheting up their noses so high in the sky that the rest of the world sees nothing but nose hair, how will they back up all their anti-Russian threats? They can’t. Their militaries are wet noodles, and every European general knows it. It is the U.S. military that allows European lords to prance on stage with the affectation that they possess vestigial spines. It is American troops and their cowboy ways that allow European elites to pretend that their natural state is anything other than supine surrender. You take away U.S. military might from dying NATO, and a contingent of good-ol’-boy Texans could take most of France before mini-mouse Macron changed into his high-heeled loafers.

So why is the Danish prime minister announcing to the world that a U.S. takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO? That’s like announcing to an unknown arsonist that if he doesn’t stop setting fires, you’ll disband the fire department. What is the Danish prime minister’s thinking here? She has one rowboat filled with three guys armed with morally indignant words and a flare gun guarding the world’s largest island. If she sends American troops and military hardware back to the Western Hemisphere, then maybe the same Russian army that has spent the last four years trying to tame the Eastern territories of Ukraine really does conquer all of Europe. I mean, how does Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen plan to defend her Nordic peninsula and surrounding islands from Putin’s Slavic horde? With furrowed brows, legally binding treaties, and stern words?

The truth is that Greenland barely belongs to anybody. It is three times the size of the world’s next biggest island and has nearly thirty percent of Australia’s land area. Yet Greenland has only 56,000 residents -- making it the least densely populated country in the world. Although the kingdoms of Norway and Denmark have claimed Greenland for a thousand years, ninety percent of the population today is Inuit. Danes, on the other hand, make up around seven percent. Calling Greenland Danish is like the United Kingdom calling India British. It is a vestige of European colonialism -- the very bugaboo that European elites hypocritically denounce to their citizens as “racist,” “imperialist,” and “incompatible” with the twenty-first century. For Prime Minister Frederiksen to claim that 50,000 Inuits must remain part of the Danish Realm sounds like sour grapes from an Old World power that feels an inflated sense of self-worth knowing that Greenland represents ninety-eight percent of its total land mass.

Anyone who looks at a North Pole-centered map of the world can understand President Trump’s strategic thinking. The Arctic is the battlefield of tomorrow. Russia and the Nordic countries surround one side of the Arctic. In the Western Hemisphere, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland complete the circle. Canada -- a socialist country that still bows down to King Charles III and has too many economic ties to communist China -- is an unreliable partner. Only red-white-and-blue Americans can properly defend the North American side of the Arctic. Besides, the U.S. military has been investing in Greenland’s defense for the last century.

Americans already defend Greenland. Pretending that it somehow belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark is petty narcissism. Unfortunately, European elites excel at little else besides petty narcissism. So Danish prime minister Frederiksen will pout. The triumvirate of tiny tots -- Starmer, Macron, and Merz -- will stomp their feet and threaten President Trump with all their invisible might. But no amount of European huffing and puffing will change the president’s mind. Once he decides that something must be done in defense of America’s national security, it gets done in due time.

However the final details get written, North America’s Greenland will once again belong to North Americans. Or were Europe’s old monarchies under the illusion that the Monroe (or Don-roe) Doctrine applied only to regions in the South?

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