Andrew Korybko
Trump might claim that building “Golden Dome”
infrastructure there, possibly with the partial purpose of serving as a cover
for deploying new offensive weapons systems in the Arctic for targeting Russia
and China, is required for plugging the gap between the world’s largest island
and Alaska
Trump framed his desired
acquisition of Greenland as
indispensable to his “Golden Dome” missile defense megaproject and hinted at
the deployment of new offensive weapons systems there too in his post announcing
tariffs against
several NATO allies that symbolically dispatched military units there.
He’s now reportedly using similar language in private when discussing Canada,
according to several administration sources, both current and former, who
recently informed NBC
News of this.
They claim that Trump hasn’t
discussed stationing US troops along Canada’s allegedly vulnerable northern
border, instead proposing “more joint U.S. and Canadian military training and
operations, and increasing joint air and water patrols as well as American ship
patrols in the Arctic.” The ostensibly defensive purposes that those plans
would advance, however, would still leave a conspicuous gap in the “Golden
Dome’s” Arctic interception range between Alaska and Greenland over Canada’s
Arctic islands.
It therefore can’t be ruled out that the reported proposals are ultimately meant to advance his goal of building “Golden Dome” infrastructure on those islands for plugging this gap. Offensive weapons systems could also be placed there too, including under the cover of interceptor missiles exactly as Russia has long accused the US of plotting in Central & Eastern Europe as regards its missile defense plans in Poland and Romania, which were significantly the first source of 21st-century tensions between them.
