Even though it was Wednesday, I will call it a TACO day (follow the
stock market).
There are zero details of what the "deal" is or isn't, and I'm betting
it's essentially what existed before.
Prove me wrong.
bp
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On 1/22/2026 7:43 AM, Rory Conaway wrote:
Looks like Trump got the deal he wanted. Everyone is happy :).
Rory
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 7:11 AM MVTVWISPA <[email protected]>
wrote:
David-
I too read that exact information from Facebook posts word for word.
*From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *David Hannum via AF
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2026 3:33 PM
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*Cc:* David Hannum <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [AFMUG] OT - Greenland
So many think Trump is a bully on Greenland . . . If you think
he's so terrible, you absolutely don’t know history.
1) 1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland
(right after Alaska).
2) WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark
was occupied.
3) 1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.
4) Cold War – Eisenhower → Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for
bases, radar, missiles.
5) Post–Cold War – Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security &
missile defense.
6) 2019 – Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed
privately for 150+ years.
The U.S. didn’t “suddenly” want Greenland.
It’s been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since
the 1800s.
Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals.
Trump didn’t invent it. His crime is he said the quiet part out loud.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Jan. 21 at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Trump is spot on about
the importance of Greenland to security. He said, "When it comes
to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in
NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic. There are eight
countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are members of NATO.
That’s Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the
U.S.,” Rutte said.
"And there’s only one country bordering on the Arctic outside
NATO, and that’s Russia. And I would argue there is a ninth
country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the
Arctic region. So, President Trump and other leaders are right, we
have to do more there; we have to protect the Arctic."
Dave Hannum
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