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Does the US actually want to defend Denmark? The idea could be to take the important and profitable parts of Europe and then let Europe manage its own defence.
Defending mainland Denmark, Estonia, Sweden and Ukraine is too expensive and risks nuclear war. Having a sanding army ready to fight off the Russians is simply not worth it for the US.
Defending Greenland without being forced to defend mainland Denmark is a far more attractive option.
It's a pretty nasty development for the innocents of nigh defenseless small countries who will be at increased risk of getting invaded, tortured and killed by the hun. I feel it's a consequence of the cultural divide that has appeared between the US Reps and the European libs. There's no real feeling of unity there. And all this plays right into Putin's hands, who afaik identified that supporting Trump into power by various means would help cause this divide, weakening the democracies of the world.
European countries can defend themselves. During the cold war even mid tier European countries had hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Russia does not want to restore the iron curtain and retake East Berlin either. What this is the end of is European countries being a joke in terms of our militaries.
Trump is American and is responsible for the US. Reaching the conclusion that the US shouldn't spend hundreds of billions subsidizing European defence does not require Russian meddling.
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