The Greenland Tell How America signalled the END of summoning By Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ On January 6, 2026, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Trump and his team are "discussing a range of options" to acquire Greenland—including "utilizing the U.S. Military." Three days later, Trump told reporters: "I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way." The international response ranged from mockery to alarm. But neither captured what the Greenland gambit actually reveals: America has lost faith in its own summoning infrastructure. For 80 years, the United States operated as history's first summoning empire—controlling global flows (trade, capital, technology) without the defense burden of territorial ownership. It didn't need to own Greenland. It just accessed Greenland...
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