Why the US really needs Greenland

It all comes down to a completely new way of shipping goods. The artic route will increasingly feature in international freight shipping. You could even say the speed of uptake will be inversely proportional to the speed of global warming that threatens to reduce the ice mass in the artic region. The only problem is US carriers and their complimentary accoutrements i.e submarines, destroyers, frigates, oilers etc etc aren’t designed to sail thru the extreme conditions of the artic route and even if they can, they don’t have any icebreaking fleet, deep port bases to resupply or refit or even loiter. They have to hug the Russian coastline making them vulnerable to radio jamming and air and sea interdiction. Carriers for example need cumbersome de-icing procedures to keep their fighter planes combat ready in icy seas. They also zig zag to avoid predictive enemy fire and have to do at least 27 other things I rather not write abt not to mention US surface ships are constructed mainly from HY series steel (high yield), while these class of steel are suited for sailing across icy seas, they can’t pull it off without drastically reducing service life. As steel contracts due to extreme cold and expands in warmer waters this increases the probability of crack propagation i.e invisible micro hairline cracks will form on every type of known steel and alloy severely reducing service life. Russian subs are constructed out of titanium, they can dive deeper that makes they deadly to US ships bc the topology below the artic ocean is filled with ridges like the Lomonosov ridge, this makes detection almost impossible with current US sonar technology in short US carriers are only good for warm and temperate waters. In short they perform lousy in the artic route. This is why the US needs to kill the new artic route as soon as possible….as not only are there technical limits such as the US not having any decent icebreakers, but more importantly the artic route has virtually no known choke points unlike the Suez, Straits of Malacca, Panama canal, straits of hormuz et al……this is key bc the entire US naval doctrine is wargamed to optimised on choke points to paraphrase they need choke points as a force multiplier without it, they go to a gun fight with cutlery. In a nutshell what we have here is something very complex with alot of moving parts. But one thing is certain if the US and their reliable allies want to control international shipping trade routes, they really need Iceland as a strategic precondition. Without it they are just completely fucked! So I would put the annexation of Greenland as a 100% certainty.

That’s all folks.