When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S President’s incontinent media posts have been threatening to do with much froth and fury since 2019. The creation of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) by detaching the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius was secured when the Mauritian premier Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam met Sir Harold Wilson, Britain’s Labour Prime Minister, one morning in 1965. The dispossession of the Chagossians should now serve as a cautionary tale for Greenland, and also cause us to question the primacy being attributed to NATO’s security in current political posturing. In what follows I argue that Greenland, like the Chagos Archipelago, might find itself dismembered and carved up to serve the security interests of Europe. The path to dispossession is being built on the fallacy that the Arctic zone presents a security threat to the U.S...