13.02.2026, Moscow.
US political elite has been discussing the issue of Greenland for a century and a half, and it has only become more relevant under Trump, philosopher, political scientist, and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on February 6 in the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
According to him, the US claims to Greenland have a long history, and it should not be assumed that “Trump suddenly got a bee in his bonnet” and he “wants to seize control over Greenland because of his eccentricity.”
The political scientist recalled that the United States first began discussing Greenland in the 1860s, “exactly when they purchased Alaska.” At the same time, they were also proposing to buy Greenland from Denmark.
“The US Secretary of State who purchased Alaska, said that it was time to think about Iceland and Greenland. Just annex them or do something else with them, because they were so necessary. They were needed, of course, not so much for their own sake, but to exert pressure on Canada to eventually seize control over it, just as well,” Kurginyan explained.
The following US proposal regarding Greenland came in 1910, when US Ambassador to Denmark Maurice Egan proposed a three-way exchange of territories between the US, Denmark, and Germany so that the US could acquire Greenland. The political scientist noted that this idea became an “obsession” for the United States.
After World War II, in 1946, the US again began talking about purchasing Greenland for $100 million in gold. “After this conversation, a new round of the feverish actions begins,” Kurginyan added.
It was then that the US has decided to build a military base on the island, which would create an absolute nuclear missile advantage for the United States over the USSR.
“The point is not that they were not just discussing this. The fact is they have started to act. It has been done in the deepest secrecy – from everyone! The idea was to create colossal underground territories, where an incredible number of the then Polaris missiles [US made two-stage solid-fuel ballistic missile designed for deployment on nuclear submarines – Rossa Primavera News Agency] were to be installed. So that they could just strike once and do away with everything. And this had to be done in such a way that even if they would be attacked in response, too many missiles would be necessary, and the Soviet Union didn’t have that many,” the political scientist added.
Kurginyan points out that the US claim to Greenland is not Trump’s PR stunt, as many believe, but a long-standing, serious project that has become relevant again under Trump.
“It was a huge project, which only became known after it was shut down. Somewhere around 1958, they deployed their engineering troops and started digging there. How much they ultimately dug up is a separate issue, but they wanted to do something unprecedented. A huge underground city, nuclear power plants supplying it all with energy, a base of a colossal, unprecedented size,” said the leader of the Essence of Time movement.
Therefore, the topic of Greenland is always on the current US political agenda, the political scientist concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
