Faulty reasoning signals

• Confirmation Bias - 3% (18 hits)
• Anchoring Bias - 0%
• Availability Heuristic - 9.1% (54 hits)
• Representativeness Heuristic - 8.1% (48 hits)
• Hindsight Bias - 0%
• Overconfidence Bias - 0%
• Framing Effect - 18.1% (107 hits)
• Loss Aversion - 0%
• Status Quo Bias - 4.6% (27 hits)
• Sunk Cost Effect - 2.5% (15 hits)
• Optimism Bias - 2.5% (15 hits)
• Pessimism Bias - 5.2% (31 hits)

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Trump just won’t let Greenland go

President Donald Trump has been known to hold onto a grudge, but his desire to take control of Greenland is eyebrow raising.

On Tuesday, the president reignited his open desire to seize the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Trump said to reporters while at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Trump started pitching this idea (again) to the public back in January 2025 and members of his administration began prancing around the icy territory soon after.

And while the president points to national security concerns as the reason he wants to claim Greenland, other theories have also emerged.

On one hand, the territory has a healthy supply of natural resources that would be valuable for the U.S.’s efforts to become the “AI capital of the world.”

On the other hand, some have speculated that Trump just wants to take over the island because … well, it sounded like a good business deal.

At the very least, Trump acknowledged that his hope to snatch the territory from Denmark would put a strain on his already tattered relationship with NATO partners.

“That’s what hurt my relationship with NATO, because Greenland doesn’t help Denmark.

Denmark doesn’t spend money to really help Greenland, but it’s an important part for the United States, and it’s surrounded by China ships and Russian ships, and that’s not going to happen,” Trump said on Tuesday.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen shut down this new proposal as well.

“It is a well-known position of the United States that it wants to own and take over Greenland.

I hope that it is equally well-known everywhere that this is not going to happen,” Frederiksen said.

But the initiative hasn’t ended just because Trump hasn’t been addressing it in press pools.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in June that talks were still underway to use the island for a collective defense.

And when he was asked during the hearing if he was aware of Greenland being a part of Denmark, he replied: “For now.”

This desire for Greenland is but a piece of a larger plan of expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

What can be painted as Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine,” the president has also made verbal grabs to make Canada the “51st state.”

And if we’re looking to the south, Cuba—which is currently still being pressured by America with sanctions and oil blockades—has been on the president’s list of desirables as well.

“I do believe I’ll be … having the honor of taking Cuba,” Trump said to reporters in March.

“Whether I free it, take it—I think I could do anything I want with it.

You want to know the truth, they’re a very weakened nation right now.”

Venezuela, which was hit with two deadly earthquakes killing nearly 3,000 people late last month, is also under the president’s thumb.

After conducting a military operation in the South American country in January to take then-President Nicolás Maduro, the U.S.—at the behest of Trump—has involved itself in the country’s oil affairs and supposed election.

“Look at Venezuela, that was a one-day war,” Trump said in a July 2 conversation with CNBC.

“And we’ve gotten our money back many, many times over for the cost of the war.”

So whether you’re looking to the north, the south, or anywhere within or surrounding the Americas, Trump has made a verbal claim to at least one territory.

Whether that will bode well for the future of NATO remains to be seen.