US secretly sought intel on Greenland military sites-Berlingske
From Olga Lautman's Substack.
https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/us-secretly-sought-intel-on-greenland?
Berlingske is one of the main daily papers in Denmark.
"Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO will survive in its current form when the danger comes from inside, because Trump’s renewed threat of stealing allied territory should not be dismissed. I have warned for almost a decade about the threat Trump poses to NATO and Europe, and each action by the Trump regime keeps confirming it. The latest reporting from Denmark, which should horrify and outrage every American, suggests the United States has already behaved in ways that Danish defense officials interpreted as contingency preparation for invasion.
According to Berlingske, previously unknown documents from the Danish Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense, released in heavily redacted form for national security reasons, indicate that in 2025 the United States secretly sought sensitive information from Danish colleagues in Greenland on military installations, ports, and air bases. The outreach reportedly took place informally and outside the normal channels that would typically run through Copenhagen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and Denmark’s senior defense leadership. The ministry was alerted immediately, “out of consideration for the strategic climate” surrounding Greenland, and the concern was escalated to the highest levels of the Danish military, including the Chief of Defense, indicating officials treated this as a serious security matter.
The timeline makes the episode harder to dismiss as an isolated incident. In January 2025, a U.S. military officer reportedly made two separate requests, six days apart, to Denmark’s military command in Greenland, with one logged on January 16 and another on January 26, seeking additional information about Greenland’s infrastructure, including critical military sites. It remains unclear whether any information was ultimately passed to the United States, and if so, what was shared. But Danish officials reportedly viewed the requests as relevant to contingency planning, including scenarios involving coercive pressure against Greenland. It should be incumbent on U.S. media to investigate who this American military officer was, who directed the outreach, and why this was happening before Trump was sworn in and while Biden was in office."
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