Copenhagen’s hostage, NATO’s hole: Why Trump must cut Faroe Islands free
When American engineers established the Faroe Islands LORAN-C master station in March 1960, they anchored a vital North Atlantic navigation chain that the Pentagon deemed essential for Polaris submarine ballistic missile accuracy. Today, this exact, critical geography still sits astride the chokepoints that aggressive Russian Northern Fleet submarines transit to surge from the Kola Peninsula into the open Atlantic. Yet, despite the undeniable strategic high stakes of the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap, NATO’s northern flank remains dangerously vulnerable to diplomatic leverage from Copenhagen. To secure this critical maritime corridor permanently, Washington must disrupt Denmark’s fiscal blackmail and integrate the Faroe Islands directly into Western security infrastructure.
