{"id":113654,"date":"2026-06-22T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/113654\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:20:13","slug":"us-official-pitches-greenland-annexation-as-a-way-to-save-red-lobsters-endless-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/113654\/","title":{"rendered":"US Official Pitches Greenland Annexation as a Way to Save Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Dans \u2014 Trump\u2019s appointee as chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission \u2014 had one thing he wanted to say on the record when New Yorker journalist Ben Taub met him for lunch in Washington. \u201cMy view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China,\u201d Dans told Taub, \u201cand you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.\u201d<\/p>\n

One reason the US is considering acquiring Greenland is to secure access to seafood that could potentially bring back unlimited shrimp at Red Lobster. \u2013 US official to the New Yorker<\/p>\n

\u2014 OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Except Red Lobster already brought back Endless Shrimp in April 2026 \u2014 at $24.99, up from the $20 price point that contributed to the chain\u2019s 2024 bankruptcy. The company\u2019s CEO had previously said he would never bring it back \u201cbecause I know how to do math.\u201d<\/a> They brought it back in April, without needing to annex Danish territory.<\/p>\n

Read: Red Lobster Brings Back Endless Shrimp, the Same Promotion that Caused Its Bankruptcy\u2014Or Did It?<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Taub\u2019s investigation \u2014 headlined \u201cInside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland\u201d<\/a> \u2014 details how Dans and a small group of administration officials translated Trump\u2019s Greenland fixation into an actual operational plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dans pitched the White House and the Pentagon on deploying Chinook helicopters from the Army\u2019s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment \u2014 the elite unit that conducts high-risk special operations raids \u2014 to Greenland under the cover of helping transport dogs for a national dogsledding race.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody was saying no,\u201d Dans told Taub. The operation was not executed. The same aircraft and the same regiment flew Delta Force soldiers into Caracas at 1 AM on January 3, 2026, and kidnapped the Venezuelan president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s actual case for Greenland is rare earth minerals and Arctic military positioning \u2014 blocking Chinese and Russian access to shipping routes and resource concessions as sea ice retreats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: Trump Admits Greenland Is the Real Reason He Soured on NATO<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the rare earth case is weaker than it sounds. Taub\u2019s reporting found the US has more domestic rare earth deposits than it could ever need \u2014 the obstacle is permitting, not supply. And blocking China from Greenlandic concessions doesn\u2019t require owning Greenland. It requires outbidding China for them.<\/p>\n

Also read: While Trump Threatened to Take Greenland, the US Was Quietly Negotiating to Get What It Wanted<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Lobster has not commented on the administration\u2019s acquisition plans.<\/p>\n

Information for this briefing was found via the sources and the companies mentioned. The author has no securities or affiliations related to this organization. Not a recommendation to buy or sell. Always do additional research and consult a professional before purchasing a security. The author holds no licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Dans \u2014 Trump\u2019s appointee as chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission \u2014 had one thing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[56911,57,56912,56913,56914,56915],"class_list":["post-113654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-ben-taub","tag-greenland","tag-new-yorker","tag-red-lobster","tag-tom-dans","tag-united-states-arctic-research-commission"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116793024901289009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}