Canadian Substacker Dean Blundell is one of the people I go to for news that doesn’t seem to get the kind of coverage it deserves in the U.S. Being in Canada gives him a different perspective I would guess. I find he picks up on things that get little attention in America. And some of those things are not little. Granted, he can get a bit excited about things — but I can stand that over media whose default setting is to normalize the atrocities. Take a look at two recent posts, starting with this one.
March 20, 2026
The USS Boxer left San Diego two days ago. Ahead of schedule. Sailors and Marines cut short their leave to make it happen. The Pentagon isn’t saying why. The Navy called it “routine operations in the Indo-Pacific.”
Nobody believes that. We’re three weeks into a war with Iran.
Here’s what’s actually happening — and why the people who’d have to execute this mission are calling it a total suicide run.
Okay, that may seem like click-bait hype — but when Blundell adds up what is going on, it is difficult to dismiss it.
They’re linking up with the USS Tripoli group, already transiting from Japan with the Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit — approximately 2,200 Marines plus around 2,000 sailors, totalling 4,200 to 4,400 personnel. Once the two groups merge, six amphibious ships will have added roughly 8,000 service members to a region where 50,000 U.S. troops are already deployed.
The Boxer is a small aircraft carrier. F-35B stealth jets. V-22 Osprey tiltrotors. Hovercraft in the well deck. The 11th MEU can conduct amphibious landings. The 31st MEU is specifically trained for limited-scale raids and seizure of maritime platforms.
The Navy spokesperson told NBC San Diego this is “routine training that ensures the continued war-fighting readiness of Navy and Marine forces.” That’s the same Navy currently fighting a war with Iran.
The U.S. has been fighting an air war almost exclusively — but there are limits to what can be achieved by just dropping bombs and firing missiles. Read the rest of it as Blundell describes possible targets and some of the potential hazards awaiting any American troops trying to come ashore. There’s been no official word of what is planned — but assets like that don’t get moved around just for fun.
As for the second matter:
Today, DR — Denmark’s equivalent of CBC or the BBC, and not a publication known for blowing smoke — published the findings of an investigation based on twelve senior anonymous sources inside the Danish government, military, and intelligence agencies, with corroboration from allied sources in France and Germany. They also reviewed an actual military operations order dated January 13th — the week I landed.
Here’s what that document described:
Denmark had sent soldiers to Greenland carrying explosives to destroy the runways at Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq airports. They also flew in blood bags from Danish blood banks to treat combat casualties.
The cover story? A NATO training exercise called “Operation Arctic Endurance.”
It was not an exercise. Denmark was planning to blow up landing strips, roads and bridges, while taking up key positions to fight US troops, acting on Intel that was verified.
Again, read the whole thing. (In case anyone thinks Blundell is exaggerating, Paul Krugman has also picked up on it — and provided this link. Unfortunately, it’s not in English. Here’s one from The Guardian.)
From Blundell:
Danish soldiers arrived in Nuuk with explosives to destroy the runways at Nuuk airport and at Kangerlussuaq — the two main points of entry for any air-delivered invasion force. The cargo also included blood bags from Danish blood banks. As one Danish defense source told DR: “We have not been in such a situation since April 1940.”
The strategy was brutal in its simplicity: if American military transports showed up and tried to land troops, Denmark would deny them the runway. No runway, no foothold. No foothold, no occupation. And if it came to a firefight on the tarmac? They had the blood for that too.
A military source who spoke to DR was unambiguous: “It was a real deployment and not an exercise. There was no possible ambiguity.” The presence of blood for transfusions and explosives was cited as proof that it was not a training exercise.
The U.S. attack on Venezuela was the tipping point. It was no longer possible to dismiss Trump’s threats as empty rhetoric.
Denmark wasn’t alone in concerns about a possible American seizure of Greenland.
Copenhagen reached out to Paris, Berlin, and Nordic capitals starting in late 2025 — shortly after Trump’s re-election — to build what one French official described as a political and military alliance to defend the Danish Realm. “Denmark decided to ‘play the game,’” the French official said. “We were prepared to do almost anything Denmark asked for — whether troops, naval support, or air cover.”
France alone offered a battalion of several hundred soldiers. What actually deployed was a multi-nation coalition that grew to include Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the UK, Estonia, Slovenia, Canada and Iceland — all within days of each other, as Danish F-35s and French A330 MRTT jets began conducting joint training missions over southeastern Greenland.
It’s difficult to minimize this:
Denmark’s official threat assessment — published by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service — had by then formally listed the United States as a threat to national security for the first time in Danish history. Alongside Russia. And China.
Let that sentence land. Denmark — a founding NATO member, a country that deployed troops to Afghanistan and Iraq and took casualties doing it out of loyalty to the United States — officially classified America as an existential threat. In writing. In a government document.
That is the world we are living in now.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter. GOPus delendus est.