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May 10, 2025
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TARGET: GREENLAND: Yes, the giant ice cube with more reindeer than people is now a top-tier U.S. intelligence priority.

Trump, Greenland metropolis (Western Journal)

No, it’s not the plot of a Hollywood B-movie. The Wall Street Journal reported that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a classified “collection-emphasis message” to U.S. intel chiefs, asking them to look up anyone in Greenland who might be open to Trump’s strange obsession with the frigid island. This will sound familiar to Iran and Guatemala, which suffered White House-directed CIA coups in the 1950s. “The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island,” the Journal said, which include taking it over and extracting valuable minerals. Reuters scooped Friday that Trump officials are considering offering Greenlanders an affiliation like Micronesia has with the U.S.

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