Besides The News

1/8/25

Well, it’s just another typical Wednesday in America, where Don Jr and Charlie Kirk are scoping out Greenland to see about a purchase of it from Denmark, and President Trump is blaming Carter’s second presidential loss on the surrendering of the Panama Canal. It’s hard to keep track of all the moving parts in politics, but hopefully, with another edition of Besides The News, we can help you distill down the most important things to understand about what is going on between the chatter and hyperbole.

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What is with the hullabaloo about Greenland and Canada becoming a part of the United States? It’s a little more complex than the next version of Manifest Destiny, but it is still something to understand why the conversations are happening and what is driving the push this time. By the way, the desire for the US to own or have control over Greenland is nothing new - having the country become a part of the United States has been proposed multiple times before. Still, I am not a fan of expanding the footprint of our nation unless Greenland has some interest in voluntarily joining. As is always the case, if you dig deeper into the conversation, you will find that Greenland has a lot of strategic resources and location benefits that our Military Industrial Energy Complex would love to get its hands on. Here’s a good breakdown of why the conversation is happening.