NATO’s “economic bazooka” set to fire on the U.S.A.
Various extraordinarily wealthy “Rasmussen” and/or “Rasmuson” families in the Pacific Northwest
Trump’s push to acquire Greenland was never seriously a hostile military takeover bid, but the United States does need to ensure command and control and defense for national security at the location, namely Pituffik Space Base, (formerly Thule Air Base,) which does happen to be located in Greenland.
Trump's bid for Greenland did serve to expose the NATO allies’ increasingly hostile view of the U.S.A. as a threat and potential aggressor, no longer a friend or full partner, merely an unwanted associate in an alliance which has come to serve European interests on their side of the Atlantic only, and is mainly characterized by an irrational hatred of Russia and all things Russian. (Geographically, Europe probably has less reason to fear direct military attacks from China.)
Former NATO chief: Europe must prepare economic ‘bazooka’ to deter Trump’s Greenland takeover
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Europe must ready an economic “bazooka” in response to President Trump’s threat to take Greenland by force. ¶“If Mr Trump does not accept Greenland’s democratic right to self-determination, Europe should first make clear the steps we are prepared to take—and this must extend beyond the threat of retaliatory tariffs,” Rasmussen said in a Tuesday piece for The Economist.
“Rasmussen Boulevard” is also hot real estate in Battle Ground, Washington, but very little information is available on the local family history, because the Danes are having their reputations scrubbed online to protect Greenland. Various real estate “deals” have also been going on with the Army Corps of Engineers. It is “Battle” Ground, after all.
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But they're not giving us Greenland.