Adam Townsend, who writes the “The Townsend Letter” and posts as @adamscrabble, views the current tension between Trump, Europe, and Greenland through the lens of a “civilizational” and “energy” struggle. He argues that the move to acquire Greenland is not a joke or a “vanity project” but a serious attempt to secure the “hard assets” required for a post-globalist era.
In his analysis, Townsend suggests that the “buffered identity” of the post-war European order is collapsing. He sees Trump’s aggressive stance—using tariffs to pressure Denmark and the UK—as a method of forcing Europe to choose between American security/energy protection or becoming a vassal of other powers. For Townsend, Greenland represents the “ultimate prize” in this realignment because of its massive untapped mineral wealth and strategic position in the Arctic, which he believes is essential for American “energy dominance.”
He often frames the European reaction as one of “elites in denial.” He argues that European leaders are clinging to international norms that no longer exist, while the U.S. is moving toward a more “porous” and aggressive pursuit of national interest. Townsend believes that if the U.S. successfully acquires or establishes a protectorate over Greenland, it fundamentally shifts the balance of power, effectively ending the European Union’s ability to act as a sovereign peer to the United States.
Around 2019 Europe was in an existential crisis because of the further intrusion by China into 5g.
China already had about a 33% share of the big stuff like towers and heavy equipment and also the labor.
America under Trump demanded that Huawei be restricted, several euro countries‘kinda’ complied by pushing restrictions out but only by a few years.
Now what must be remembered is during this time, Huawei got the buy from Ukraine to power its backend of of its entire cyber security (is that crazy or what!!??) and Huawei was also gonna be the backend for UK’s system to require IDs to access the internet and social media ( easy right) and many of UKs top politicians and top honchos started working for Huawei in senior roles.
Europe promised it would do constant observance of Huawei code – which is obviously impossible as it pretty much changes day by day.
So back to 5g
– Europe feigned preferencing Ericsson…the problem is… Ericsson and Vodaphone etc had been driven to financial ruin by Euro crazy regs that squeezed profit in an already low margin biz – and this meant that Ericsson couldn’t build and deploy.
At this same time, shithead American saboteur Lina Khan of the FTC took Qualcomm to court to fight its 5g – and the judges (Obama and Biden peeps) did an unprecedented cap on the profits Qualcomm could make on its late generation chips!guess which company was the biggest euro client of Huawei…it’s Germany!!I used this as an example of just one industry.
Now what’s happening in Europe is they truly don’t have any cash, knowledge workers and DEF doesn’t have the money to revive its energy in any meaningful way without financing as I explained before. and this means it can’t revise its indigenous energy intake biz or autos, chemicals, even glass. I’m in drone biz, we dont buy lens from Germany for years. Even Iran which was back door buying German glass for its drones via its euro deal called Instex which Europe used to thwart SWIFT.So why is Europe fighting tooth and nail for Greenland that even in its wildest dreams they can afford to mine it, and they don’t have the military or tech such as nuke submarines, hypersonic missiles or AD?
I suspect that EU has collateralized its deal(s) with a china with Greenland – hence another one of Trumps major concerns.
