# The Danish Greenland demolition plan

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*Denmark's preparations to destroy its own airstrips in Greenland rather than let an American invasion use them, including blood supplies moved into place. John Kiriakou confirms the preparations were real and made because the Danes took Donald Trump at his word.*

- **The plan:** Send troops to line the airstrips with explosives and blow them
- **Also prepared:** Blood supplies
- **Why:** They believed [Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump) would invade [Greenland](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/greenland)
- **What convinced them:** "Greenland will be ours"
- **Kiriakou's verdict:** "Insane that it got to that point"

**The Danish Greenland demolition plan** was Denmark's preparation to destroy its own infrastructure in [Greenland](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/greenland) rather than allow an American invasion force to use it.

The plan as described on the DeProgram show was to send troops to Greenland, line all the airstrips with explosives and blow them up, with blood supplies made ready in advance.[1] [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) confirmed it without qualification: *"you're right. They did all the things that you just said they did, because they genuinely believed [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump) was going to invade Greenland. Insane that it got to that point."*[2]

His explanation of the Danish reasoning is that they simply took the president literally. *"They believed. They took Donald Trump at his word. He said, 'Greenland will be ours.'"* From there the conclusion followed: *"they knew that they were going to have to fight this Goliath somehow. And so, you might as well take the place down with you."*[3][4]

Kiriakou's own posture toward the episode is apologetic — *"every time I encounter a Dane, I want to apologize on behalf of the American government"* — and admiring of the response: *"I seriously didn't think they had it in them. Kudos to them."*[2][4] He did not treat the crisis as closed, noting that *"the Greenland topic keeps popping up again like a meerkat."*[2]

## See also

- [Greenland](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/greenland)
- [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump)
- [Monroe Doctrine](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/monroe-doctrine)
- [2026 Iran war](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/2026-iran-war)

## Sources

1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 04:49. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=289s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 05:21. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=321s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 58:25. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=3505s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 58:55. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=3535s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/

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