I like Iza Kaminska. Even back in her FT days hating on bitcoin all day long I liked her.

She's edgy, honest, thoughtful, and altogether pretty impressive. So her bouncing off to Greenland like all the other journos and writing about it is... REQUIRED READING:

I am in Greenland working on a magazine piece that will come out once the Davos dust settles. It will provide more insight into what has been happening, but not just yet. [...] I’m here because I wanted to see with my own eyes what is true and what is being manufactured as a “media reality”.

There's a media landscape/whom-to-trust commentary in there too. I'd take her first-person account over BBC or NYT anyyyyy day, or whatever flies across my algo curated by GoogleTM.

you’re just going to have to trust me that these counter-narratives and alternative perspectives are the only way to overcome the current firehose of noise and distraction.

It's clearly just a pretty coordinated ruse at this point, right?

Yup:

My sense is that most journalists are here for pretty backdrop reasons. I know how this works because I used to be a CNBC producer. This is not real reporting. It mostly involves regurgitating what the wires — informed by leadership in Europe or America — are already saying, just on air.

"I am mostly telling people I am a tourist because identifying as a journalist is frankly embarrassing.""I am mostly telling people I am a tourist because identifying as a journalist is frankly embarrassing."

On the surface, Nuuk appears to be a very high-functioning little town. Great Western-quality food is available everywhere. Supermarkets are stocked to the brim with fresh produce from across the world. Retailers have access to very high quality western goods. Matcha tea lattes are on many menus. For leisure, there is a large public swimming pool and even a ski slope. Internet and telecom services are of good quality and freely available.

For the most part, Greenland reminds me of Poland in the interwar period: a country that has achieved independence (or in Greenland’s case, fragile home rule) by playing larger powers off against each other. It knows it has leverage, and it will use it to get the best deal it can possibly get for itself.

That latter point might be the most interesting story of all. Also, what tha actual fuck?

The piece devulges into geopolitical speculations, so skim the rest. This was intriguing, though:

The alternative option is to partition Greenland between the north and the south, with the U.S. acquiring the largely uninhabited areas. This would achieve a similar equilibrium, but provide less funding for Ukraine.