Hear what I found in Project 2025: this isn’t just “Denmark poking the bear,” it’s the blueprint for turning headlines like this into leverage. It treats US debt/interest costs as mission-critical and even talks about locking in rates with longer-duration issuance (they float a 50-year Treasury), it explicitly calls for reshaping NATO so Europe fields most conventional defense while the U.S. reduces its force posture in Europe, and it treats the Arctic/Greenland as a strategic theater—year-round U.S. presence in Nuuk plus policies to deepen economic ties directly between the U.S. and Greenland. In other words: the “say it out loud” posture you’re worried will fuel Trump? The plan is to make dependence explicit and use it—and the obvious implication is: if you pick leverage as policy, expect other countries to start playing leverage games back.
Hear what I found in Project 2025: this isn’t just “Denmark poking the bear,” it’s the blueprint for turning headlines like this into leverage. It treats US debt/interest costs as mission-critical and even talks about locking in rates with longer-duration issuance (they float a 50-year Treasury), it explicitly calls for reshaping NATO so Europe fields most conventional defense while the U.S. reduces its force posture in Europe, and it treats the Arctic/Greenland as a strategic theater—year-round U.S. presence in Nuuk plus policies to deepen economic ties directly between the U.S. and Greenland. In other words: the “say it out loud” posture you’re worried will fuel Trump? The plan is to make dependence explicit and use it—and the obvious implication is: if you pick leverage as policy, expect other countries to start playing leverage games back.