- Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove strongly endorses President Trump’s efforts to bring Greenland under U.S. control, viewing it as a vital step to bolster European security in the Arctic.
- Dearlove argues that only American forces can effectively operate and maintain a sustained presence in Greenland’s extreme environment.
- He proposes that Denmark lease Greenland to the United States for 100 years as a realistic path forward.
- The island’s strategic importance is emphasized, including its vast mineral resources, missile defense role, control of Arctic sea routes, and protection of the critical GIUK gap against Russian naval threats.
- U.S. interest in Greenland dates back to the 1860s but has grown urgent due to Russia’s ongoing aggression since the 2022 Ukraine invasion and China’s expanding Arctic ambitions.
- Dearlove stresses that American oversight would make the northern approaches much safer for all Europeans and block Chinese influence, which he describes as “massively important.”
- European leaders have reacted with alarm and rejection to ideas of financial deals or military action, while Britain’s Keir Starmer offers vague assurances about NATO while admitting more protection is needed.
- The piece notes Washington’s long-standing frustration with Europe’s preference for social spending over defense readiness, creating vulnerabilities that Russia and China could exploit.
- Reports suggest China’s mining investments in Greenland may have dual-use (military) potential, raising concerns about future espionage or bases.
- Dearlove’s support, given his Cold War-era experience, signals growing acceptance among seasoned intelligence figures that securing Greenland under U.S. command may be essential to counter rising threats and preserve Western dominance in the Arctic.
Sir Richard Dearlove, who led Britain’s MI6 from 1999 to 2004, has come out in favor of President Trump’s drive to secure control over Greenland. In a recent interview, Dearlove argued that handing the island to American oversight would strengthen defenses across Europe against growing dangers from Russia and China. He pointed out the harsh Arctic conditions where only U.S. forces can maintain a sustained presence.
“There is a strong argument for reinforcing Europe’s security by putting a much greater representation of American forces, which are the only ones that can effectively cope up in Greenland,” Dearlove said. He went further, suggesting Denmark could lease the territory to the U.S. for a century to make it happen.
Greenland’s strategic value has drawn American attention for decades, starting as far back as the 1860s. Today, with Russia’s aggression in Ukraine ongoing since 2022 and China’s aggressive moves in global trade, the island’s role has become critical. It holds vast mineral resources, offers a shield against missile threats, and controls key access points in the Arctic, including the GIUK gap—a vital chokepoint for blocking Russian submarines from reaching the Atlantic.
European reactions have ranged from alarm to outright rejection. Some leaders expressed shock at the idea of financial payouts to Greenland’s small population or even military steps to claim it. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged that “more could be done to protect the area,” while trying to assure Trump of NATO’s commitment. Yet skepticism lingers in Washington over Europe’s long habit of skimping on defense budgets in favor of social programs.
Dearlove didn’t hold back on the benefits. American control would “make the Northern approach a lot safer for all Europeans, and it keeps the Chinese out too, which is also massively important,” he stated. This aligns with concerns that Beijing has been eyeing Arctic routes and resources as ice melts, potentially setting up bases that could challenge Western dominance.
Whispers in intelligence circles suggest China’s interest in Greenland goes beyond economics. Reports from sources like the Daily Mail indicate Beijing has already invested in mining projects there, raising fears of dual-use facilities that could serve military purposes. If left unchecked, this could turn the Arctic into a new front for espionage and influence operations, much like what’s seen in the South China Sea.
Trump’s revival of the Greenland proposal, first floated in 2019, comes at a time when alliances are tested. The Telegraph noted Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey vowing not to allow U.S. use of UK bases for any aggressive moves on the island, highlighting transatlantic tensions. Still, Dearlove’s endorsement carries weight, given his track record in countering threats during the Cold War’s tail end.
For many, this boils down to raw necessity. Europe’s military shortcomings leave a vacuum that adversaries are eager to fill. Handing Greenland to capable American hands could prevent a larger crisis, echoing biblical calls for wise stewardship in the face of gathering storms. As Putin rebuilds his forces and Xi expands his reach, bold actions like Trump’s might be the safeguard the free world needs.
In the end, Dearlove’s support signals a shift among seasoned operatives who see past the headlines. With Arctic competition heating up, securing Greenland under U.S. command could prove essential for preserving peace and prosperity in an increasingly hostile world.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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