Time Named The Origins Of Trump's "obsession" With Greenland

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U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to gain control over Greenland began with an intelligence briefing given to him in 2018, Time magazine reported, citing sources. The Time piece is titled "The Origins of Trump's Obsession with Greenland."

Then, Trump was told of increased Russian submarine activity and an increased presence of Chinese vessels in the Arctic. Intelligence agencies believed this posed a threat to U.S. security.

Then Trump met with his longtime friend and businessman Ronald Lauder. The latter told the politician about Denmark's economic problems and suggested that the U.S. could use that to buy Greenland outright.

According to a senior White House official at the time and another source familiar with the meeting, Trump was most concerned about the need for a larger and more permanent U.S. presence in Greenland because of its strategic location in the North Atlantic.

Three sources close to Trump said that since his first term, the president has been bothered by the feeling that the U.S. had been in Greenland since the early 1950s. In the early 1950s, Time notes, the states built Thule Air Force Base - now Pituffik Space Base - there, which they later operated. The area played a key role in missile defense and nuclear deterrence in the region.

In the Cold War, the United States effectively controlled Greenland militarily, the magazine says. Denmark's influence was limited and largely nominal: when strategic needs collided with sovereignty issues, U.S. security priorities took over. But after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. reduced its presence in Greenland by closing or consolidating facilities, with Thule base retained as an outpost.

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