Moscow Ambivalent about Trump’s Call for US Acquisition of Greenland

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 12 – Moscow has been pleased by US President-Elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US should acquire Denmark both because it believes such a move will divide NATO and because it is confident that Trump’s move will legitimize what Russia is doing in Ukraine.
    But at the same time, Russian officials are concerned that any such American acquisition of Greenland would threaten Moscow’s control of the Northern Sea Route in particular and the Arctic move generally and thus oppose it again as they did when Trump first made this suggestion during his first term as president (ridl.io/ru/grenlandskie-mechty-kremlya/).
    On its ambivalence about the US and Greenland, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/01/by-talking-about-annexing-greenland-pro.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/05/moscow-sees-greenlands-moves-toward.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/05/us-wants-greenland-as-second-alaska.html).
    And on Moscow’s own involvement in earlier efforts to detach Greenland from Denmark but not of course to add it to the US and its calculations about the natural resources of that island,, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/04/moscow-not-behind-greenlands-pro.html.