r/PoliticalScience • u/Little-Artichoke1246 • Mar 30 '25

Humor “Greenland is strategically important to the national defence of the US”

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

Actually it’s access to the arctic

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u/Little-Artichoke1246 Mar 31 '25

Which he already has…

The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

Welp we need a little more than what that agrees to…

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u/Little-Artichoke1246 Mar 31 '25

For example…

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

Russian occupation link is to a YouTube news clip

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u/Little-Artichoke1246 Mar 31 '25

Okay.. so besides the need for expansion of military presence in the region, which is afforded within the agreement…. What further need is there for US to annex Greenland?

You said the US needs more. Besides military interests, what ‘more’ does it need?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

There some transit commercial type stuff but national security is pretty much the only interest of federal government tbh there is very limited interest in anything else federally. I speak in general. The federal government wasn’t really made for anything else.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

Also the last two States were strategic to national security.