Greenland Belongs With America: Strategic Imperative, Mineral Riches, and Ending Danish Atrocities

Like many Americans, I initially laughed off President Trumps's 'threats' to purchase or take over Greenland. I figured it was his typical bluster. Until I saw some people I respect on X talk about it and realized there might be something to the talk. So, I started watching documentaries, listening to podcasts and reading primary sources. Titillating stuff, for sure. I have come to the conclusion America should absolutely purchase or take over or do whatever President Trump sees fit. We should have owned it all along.

We can buy Greenland outright by offering direct payments to the relatively few Greenlanders, [57,000 total] granting them U.S. citizenship in the bargain. I wrote a detailed Substack on this last year.
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Most Inuit Greenlanders hate the Danish, who tried to genocide them with… pic.twitter.com/Iilt6LaLqx
— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) January 7, 2026

This is a great primer thread to get started for those who know nothing about Greenland. There are also some great documentaries on Amazon Prime describing the Inuit people and their culture. They are about 89% of the population of Greenland. They know they have to start diversifying their economy and the way to do that is with their minerals. Most of them also understand China and Russia are going to start beating down their door and their best chance for their future is America.

2. On Purchasing Greenland . . .
At least we won't try to genocide the Greenlandic Inuit with a secret IUD implantation scheme like Denmark did in modern times.https://t.co/Fu0Ji7GWtx
— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) January 7, 2026

Also, many Inuits really dislike Demark for their attempts to keep them from having babies back in the 70's and 80's. It's a good reason for them to not be fans of the Danes.

4. But the Greenlandic Inuit must love their Danish “big brothers,” and hold them in high regard, right? Wrong! Not after the long-overdue exposure of a secret Danish program that can only be described as the planned genocide of the Greenlandic Inuit. I was actually shocked to… pic.twitter.com/aXTfGA4YEe
— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) January 7, 2026

5. From the 2022 BBC article:

Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors.

Thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an… pic.twitter.com/b6meug0K0W
— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) January 7, 2026

It's also insulting for them to claim they did it because they were 'inbreeding' or at least they were afraid they were going to.

Greenland is a couple small towns and villages...

And almost all of them are on the American side...

Not European. pic.twitter.com/Znxq9EU9h9
— Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 (@ztisdale) January 7, 2026

Trump wants to acquire Greenland to secure the Western hemisphere…

It’s position in the northern Atlantic would help secure the arctic, acting opposite Alaska in the northern Pacific.

World powers acquire things. We did it with the Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Alaska, etc. pic.twitter.com/NbkIAnSBBk
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 6, 2026

Another fact many may not know is the United States built most of the roads and infrastructure in Greenland, not Denmark.