Greenland Says No. So What?
Minerals in Greenland, communism in Cuba, cocaine in Colombia. All problems with one solution.
Nearly one hundred people died on January 4, 2026. U.S. special forces stormed Venezuela to grab Nicolás Maduro. Thirty-two of the dead were Cuban soldiers.
Trump called it a success.
Venezuela was a preview. Greenland. Cuba. Colombia. All of them watching, calculating whether they’re on the list.
They are.
Trump’s revived Monroe Doctrine treats sovereign nations like real estate deals gone bad. Greenland has minerals. Cuba has communism. Colombia has cocaine.
Therefore, they’re all problems requiring American solutions. Preferably military ones.
Greenlanders keep saying no. They’ve called Trump’s annexation talk dangerous and dismissed his fantasies of takeover. This land belongs to Greenlanders and Danes.
But no doesn’t end the conversation when Washington is pricing leverage.
The Pentagon isn’t just thinking flags and troops. It’s war-gaming control without annexation: access, basing, corridors, choke points.
Denmark knows this. They’ve gone into crisis mode, pouring money into Greenland’s infrastructure. Desperate measures to keep what’s theirs. The ice melts, the minerals appear, and a peaceful Arctic territory becomes a bargaining chip.
Cuba got the message when their soldiers bled out in Venezuela.
Now Trump says the island is ready to fall. President Díaz-Canel threatens that Americans will pay a very heavy price. But what price? Cuba survived six decades of embargoes. It may not survive a military invasion.
Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, says Cuba is in a lot of trouble. He’s not wrong.
Trump wants Cuba pulled back into a U.S. centered orbit. Colonial economics with a MAGA hat.
Then there’s Colombia. President Gustavo Petro gets labeled a drug leader by Trump. Evidence? Vague accusations. Trump says Petro won’t be doing it very long.
Asked about military action, Trump’s response: sounds good to me.
Petro warns he’ll take up arms again if detained. He talks about unleashing a popular jaguar. It sounds dramatic until you remember Venezuela. Until you realize what a preview looks like when it turns real.
This is the pattern: leftist government, drug accusations, security concerns, resource interests. Then the threat of force.
European allies call it neo-colonialism. Trump sees Latin America as America’s backyard and Greenland as a strategic asset.
Trump frames this as protecting American interests. As if Greenlanders asking to be left alone are unreasonable. As if Colombian democracy is secondary to cocaine production.
As if Cuba’s communist government justifies whatever comes next.
The Don-roe Doctrine is the Monroe Doctrine without pretense.
The hemisphere belongs to America. The Arctic too, apparently. Any leader who disagrees can watch what happened in Venezuela and reconsider.
Greenland didn’t ask to be a mineral deposit. Cuba didn’t send soldiers to die in Venezuela so it could become the next warning. Colombia didn’t elect Petro so Trump could threaten him with detention.
None of them get a vote.
The superpower already decided.
https://open.substack.com/pub/captainfransentim/p/greenland-is-the-line-cross-it-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=5jmmex
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