Admiral Bauer at Davos: Greenland is of Enormous Strategic Importance and America Right to be Worried

The ongoing rebalancing of the global world order between the U.S. and China makes President Donald Trump’s interest in Greenland rational as the “very important and strategic island” is a key to questions including Arctic security, hypersonic weapons, space, and raw materials, Davos heard on Wednesday.

Speaking in one of his first major public engagements since stepping down as the head of the NATO military committee and his retirement from the Royal Netherlands Navy, former Admiral Rob Bauer spoke out on Greenland and the intense threat to the West of Russia and China cooperating on the Arctic. Now a civilian, Admiral Bauer spoke apparently free of any NATO party line and underlined the rightness of U.S. President Donald Trump’s concern about the security of Greenland,