It was 850 points, but yeah it was a momentary dip when the rhetoric reached an alarming point.
That said, we've had a treaty with Denmark since 1951 allowing us to place military assets in Greenland with very little restriction. I skimmed the actual treaty last night, and my takeaway was we have to place military assets in designated defense areas, and that only requires the USA and Denmark to agree that this place over here is a defense area. Once those areas are defined, we can put any personnel or hardware we want and even build bases. Maybe there's some additional backstory, like maybe the administration wanted a new defense area and Denmark said no. If there's something like that going on, they could do a better job of communicating it. So, like Bill, I'm wondering what the new deal is, because the existing one was pretty sweet already. -Adam ________________________________ From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Jones <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2026 4:26 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - Greenland I laughed so hard at CNN and its ilk "DOW PLUMMETS 500 points" ... so a cow took a dump in a field you say? On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:24 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Even though it was Wednesday, I will call it a TACO day (follow the stock market). There are zero details of what the "deal" is or isn't, and I'm betting it's essentially what existed before. Prove me wrong. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/22/2026 7:43 AM, Rory Conaway wrote: Looks like Trump got the deal he wanted. Everyone is happy :). Rory On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 7:11 AM MVTVWISPA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: David- I too read that exact information from Facebook posts word for word. From: AF <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of David Hannum via AF Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 3:33 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: David Hannum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [AFMUG] OT - Greenland So many think Trump is a bully on Greenland . . . If you think he's so terrible, you absolutely don’t know history. 1) 1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska). 2) WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark was occupied. 3) 1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it. 4) Cold War – Eisenhower → Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for bases, radar, missiles. 5) Post–Cold War – Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security & missile defense. 6) 2019 – Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed privately for 150+ years. The U.S. didn’t “suddenly” want Greenland. It’s been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since the 1800s. Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals. Trump didn’t invent it. His crime is he said the quiet part out loud. ======================= NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Jan. 21 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Trump is spot on about the importance of Greenland to security. He said, "When it comes to the Arctic, I think President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are members of NATO. That’s Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the U.S.,” Rutte said. "And there’s only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that’s Russia. And I would argue there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So, President Trump and other leaders are right, we have to do more there; we have to protect the Arctic." Dave Hannum -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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