How Denmark (May Have) Planned to Sabotage Greenland Before a US Invasion

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Danish special forces reportedly had a plan to disable Greenland’s runways in the event of a US military intervention, making it far more difficult to land large numbers of troops.

Months after President Donald Trump suspended his rhetorical campaign to obtain Greenland from Denmark, media reports have surfaced indicating that Copenhagen had developed plans to destroy key infrastructure on the island in the event of a US takeover attempt. The plans were developed in response to Trump’s repeated statements about acquiring Greenland, by force if necessary.

The implications here are significant: apparently for the first time in NATO’s nearly 80-year history, one member state was actively planning a sabotage operation against another, which had itself threatened to occupy the territory of that ally. Denmark’s sabotage plan wasn’t about defeating the United States—that was never plausible, given the vast size, population, and power differential between the two—but about denying access and raising the cost of intervention.

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