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Denmark reportedly planned for the possibility of a U.S. invasion of Greenland earlier this year
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with contingency plans that included destroying key runways to keep American aircraft from landing
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there. Danish broadcaster DR reports that in January, Danish forces flew blood supplies and
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explosives to Greenland, as President Trump publicly pushed for U.S. control of the territory
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and he warned it could happen, quote, the hard way. The explosives were meant for runways in Greenland's capital, Nuke
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and at another airfield farther north, part of a plan to prevent U.S. aircraft from landing
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The blood supplies were intended to treat wounded if fighting broke out
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Danish officials grew more concerned after the U.S. military operation in Venezuela in early January
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with some sources comparing the moment to 1940 when Denmark was invaded by Nazi Germany
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The deployment was formally presented as a NATO exercise, Arctic endurance, but sources say it was a real operation, not routine training
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Dr. Peter Viggo Jacobson, a strategy professor at the Royal Danish Defense College
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told Straight Arrow News earlier this year, quote, if the U.S. were to attack an ally and take over part of its territory
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it would be doing exactly the same as Russia did when it attacked Ukraine in 2022
