Eighty-plus years ago the United States began building military bases in Greenland and maintained more than thirty for a generation and then voluntarily abandoned all but one installation used for missile warning and space surveillance. Today, Greenlanders resoundingly say come on back, if you want, and build as many bases as you need. But don’t try to buy our land and grab the wealth under our ice. They’re not for sale. Don’t try to scare us. We’ll join hands with Denmark and France and Germany and some other NATO countries who just sent forces here to tell the United States we won’t give up Greenland to a deranged fat man who, one victim at a time, is playing the Nazi game. And, when our demonstrators march in frozen streets, shouting, “We’re keeping our country one way or another,” that means we’d consider signing treaties with Russia and China to help us. We doubt we’ll have to do that, though, because we think Americans are too smart to let Trump invade a NATO member, which all signatories would be obliged to also view as an attack on themselves.

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