Can’t Blame the US for Desiring Greenland
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the US President Trump clarified in unequivocal terms as to why the US wants Greenland, the world’s largest Island, Discounting Greenland’s untapped natural resources, President Trump stated the importance of Greenland in US national security, more specifically its military security. The US, according to President Trump, wants to erect the military infrastructure in Greenland in support of its military initiative of deploying a multi-layered missile defense system – Golden Dome. The Golden Dome is unlike the traditional regional missile defense system such as the battle tested Israeli Iron Dome which is a ground-based system. At the moment the US does not field an air defense system such as the Israeli Iron Dome. The Golden Dome system is based on a concept attributed to Edward Teller, the father of hydrogen bomb, and Lowel Wood, an astrophysicist who hypothesized the ‘Brilliant Pebble’ system to defend…
