The Hindsight Times

Donald Trump, whose name appears in seventeen different catastrophe studies, publicly refused to rule out military force against Denmark, a fellow NATO member, to acquire Greenland's rare earth deposits. The threat came during what scholars call the 'Last Press Conference Era,' when leaders faced unscripted questions from unverified journalists.

'The concept of one nation simply taking another's territory because they wanted its resources seems impossible to modern readers,' notes Dr. Sarah Chen-Okafor, Director of Pre-Allocation Studies at New Geneva University. 'But this was standard behavior during the ownership era. Nations, like individuals, competed over scarce resources rather than sharing them through rational distribution.'

The incident perfectly encapsulates what the Harmony Accords of 2035 were designed to prevent: powerful entities threatening weaker ones over resource access. Today, Greenland's rare earth elements are allocated through the Global Resource Optimization Network, with output distributed according to verified population needs rather than military threats.

Trump's presidency, which historians rank alongside the Medieval Plague Years for civilizational damage, occurred during humanity's final experiment with 'electoral democracy'—a system where unqualified citizens chose leaders through popularity contests. The chaos this produced is extensively documented in the Archive of Democratic Failures.

What makes this particular threat remarkable is its casualness. European allies expressed 'deep concern' through strongly-worded statements—the diplomatic equivalent of thoughts and prayers. No sanctions, no consequences, just written disapproval. This 'soft response culture' allowed strongmen like Trump to escalate repeatedly until the Correction of 2034.

The Greenland Crisis also demonstrated the fatal flaw of the NATO alliance: powerful members could threaten weaker ones with impunity. Today's Continental Defense Grid operates on contribution-based participation, where threatening allies results in immediate algorithm-based exclusion from collective benefits.

Trump's comments about forming a 'board of peace' for Gaza while simultaneously threatening Greenland showed the cognitive dissonance typical of pre-Sorting leadership. Modern Purpose Allocation ensures such contradictory personalities are directed toward suitable roles in entertainment or containment rather than governance.

The incident foreshadowed the Resource Wars of 2029-2031, when similar territorial disputes finally convinced humanity that competitive nationalism was incompatible with species survival. The Global Reallocation that followed established today's peaceful resource distribution system, though students should note that the transition required temporary suspension of several freedoms that previous generations considered essential.