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The story
On September 21, the Danish Prime Minister’s Office announced that the leaders of the United States, Denmark, and Greenland will sign an agreement in New York on the 22nd to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic region. Given that President Trump has repeatedly brought up acquiring Greenland, the contents of the agreement drew close attention. On 5ch’s News Flash+ thread, discussion centered on a setup where the U.S. military gains vastly expanded authority to station troops and build bases while Denmark keeps only nominal sovereignty — with some calling it “effectively a win for Trump” and others drawing parallels to the U.S.-Japan relationship.
September 22, 2026, 13:45 — Kyodo News
[Washington, Kyodo] The Danish Prime Minister’s Office announced on the 21st that the leaders of the United States, Denmark, and the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland will sign an agreement in New York on the 22nd to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic region.
Source: 47news.jp / Original article here
What people said
Sure, it was a bit much, but it wasn't baseless delusion after all.
In exchange for security guarantees (showing up if something happens), they get to stay big off allied investment, you know?
Though lately, apparently short on missiles themselves, they're not even delivering what they owe to allies.
In a sense, the whole Western security setup up to now is already breaking down.
Isn't it creating jobs though? AI's going to put more people out of work anyway.
Sanae-chan (PM Takaichi Sanae) will hand over as much money as it takes.
Well, this really is a strategic chokepoint for America.
Actually, are they seriously going after Russia?
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It's on the ICBM flight path too, right.
They should seriously drop the Mercator projection from school education.
Only sailors and the like should be the ones using that thing.
What's more, even if Greenland becomes independent in the future, the agreement stays in effect.
That makes it almost impossible for Russia or China to get their hooks into Greenland.
If that's really how it plays out, we can give Trump credit on this one — he actually pulled it off.
Guess the only option left is using stuff like fentanyl to bring down America itself.
Greenland is directly tied to homeland defense, but the Senkakus have nothing to do with that.
The Japanese archipelago isn't the property of the Japanese people.
2. The U.S. can massively expand troop stationing and base-building. The U.S. is granted a permanent right to set up and operate military facilities in Greenland.
It must consult with the Danish government in advance before building new facilities, but doesn't need Danish government approval.
3. Military bases from non-NATO countries are not permitted.
This excludes China, Russia, and others from setting up bases or maintaining any military presence in Greenland.
4. Security-sensitive investment from China, Russia, etc. is also restricted.
Investment is restricted in security-sensitive areas such as ports, critical infrastructure, and mineral resources.
5. This remains in effect even if Greenland becomes independent in the future.
Isn't this basically a win for Trump?
Come in hard at first, then let the other side make the concessions.
Effectively he's cut China and Russia out and secured a free hand for the U.S.
Put simply, it's Denmark = Japan, Greenland = Okinawa, kind of.
Denmark also depends on America for its defense, so it can't defy the U.S.
Apparently Denmark deeply regrets buying American-made F-35s, but at this point there's nothing to be done about it.
It's the same as the U.S. military being able to plant bases anywhere in Japan and operate freely without the Japanese government's permission.
Makes you wonder if Japan was the model for this.
But Denmark never lost a war to America — if anything it's been a loyal ally — so what does it say that it's getting the same treatment as Japan?
Denmark is a small country with a population of only about 6 million.
Denmark itself is well aware that it's hard to handle Greenland's administration and defend the vast Arctic region on its own.
That's exactly why — keeping nominal sovereignty while handing most of the actual security work over to the U.S. — this agreement reflects that kind of pragmatic judgment.
And then Scotland and Wales go independent, Northern Ireland unifies with Ireland, and what's left of Britain — just England now — forms a union with Denmark for the first time in 1,000 years. Population instantly jumps back up to 64.8 million. Well, most of it's England, but still…
I get it, but Trump seems like the type who'd betray you when it really counts.
Britain was treating Russia as an enemy to an almost abnormal degree even before the Ukraine war, but the current U.S. looks like it might be cutting deals with Russia behind the scenes.
Trump isn't really the point here.
This is a state-to-state agreement between America and Denmark.
It just happens that Trump is the one who got it signed.
But these days America's full of yes-men after Trump's purges, so his personal intentions carry huge weight.
In fact, even when Saudi Arabia — getting hit by the Houthis — repeatedly asked the U.S. to send troops, it kept getting turned down.
It's natural and healthy for the president to have a lot of power.
That said, since this is a state-to-state agreement, even if a Democratic president comes next, they're not going to bother tearing it up.
Though if you told them to build an agreement like this from scratch, that'd be a different story.
Speed is the advantage of dictatorship.
You seriously think the U.S. would hand Taiwan over to China — a country sitting right in the middle of the First Island Chain and producing over 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductors? Lol.
There's no formal diplomatic relationship, but plenty of U.S. military-linked personnel are stationed in Taiwan.
Some in the U.S. leadership think that once TSMC's American plants are up and running, Taiwan becomes disposable.
Growing more alarmed, Taiwan has been deepening ties with Israel — even funding settlement projects.
Even adding up all of TSMC's U.S. plant capacity, it falls far short of Taiwan's home production capacity.
And this chart doesn't even show it yet, but building a 1.4nm fab in Taiwan has already been decided too.
This is exactly why China can't carelessly invade.
They want to avoid damage to their own coastal manufacturing belt, let alone Taiwan.
On a Taiwanese mountain over 2,000 meters high sits a large radar installation, one of the most powerful in East Asia.
It monitors military activity across a broad swath from southern China all the way to Xinjiang, making it one of the key nodes in America's global defense network.
Published photos of the radar base have even shown several Western-looking individuals believed to be U.S. military personnel.
China and Russia just start claiming territory as their own with lies, then gradually lock in de facto control by force — it's lies and violence with them.
But America's kidnapped the president of Venezuela and launched a preemptive strike on Iran…
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People should drop this whole "it's lies and violence, so it's bad" mindset.
Results are everything.
There's no such thing as good or evil here.
Background and points of debate on this topic
Regarding Greenland, President Trump has shown interest in buying it going back to his first term in 2019, and has repeatedly raised the question of its ownership since 2025. This agreement is reported to maintain Denmark’s nominal sovereignty while granting the U.S. military a permanent right to build bases and operate military facilities there, and to exclude involvement from China and Russia. In the thread, commenters noted that this framework resembles how U.S. bases operate in Japan, with many likening the ability to act without the host country’s permission to a “Japan model.” That said, based on these comments alone, it’s not clear how legally binding the agreement actually is, or how far Greenlanders’ right to self-determination will be preserved in practice. Comparisons to Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands also came up, but these fall outside the scope of this agreement and should be understood as speculation by commenters, not established fact.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “[Breaking] Greenland Security Agreement to Be Signed on the 22nd.”
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