Greenland, Star Wars or Star Trek.

A frozen map point just became the hottest story on Earth. We unpack why Greenland—population 58,000—now sits at the crossroads of great-power rivalry, nuclear risk, and a fast-emerging space economy.

We start with the GIUK Gap, the narrow corridor between Greenland, Iceland, and the U.K. that shapes how submarines and missiles move into the Atlantic. As Washington looks to end the war in Ukraine and parts of Europe signal resolve, planners fear escalation and watch the Arctic closely. At the same time, Greenland’s unique status under Denmark and an unfinished path toward independence raise tensions as the U.S. asserts rights granted by a 1951 treaty. Add in memories of blunt rhetoric about “taking” the island, and you understand the local anxiety: small communities caught between sovereignty and superpower necessity.

Then we pivot to space. The Arctic anchors polar satellite links, routing data through stations like Svalbard and into subsea cables—the digital umbilical that feeds our phones, grids, and markets. After reported cable cuts in 2022, redundancy became urgent, and Greenland emerged as a logical backup site. That’s only one layer. Space-based solar power, orbital data centers, and lunar helium-3 for fusion and quantum computing are no longer far-off ideas; they’re strategic plans with real timelines and budgets. Whoever secures the Arctic gateways and ground stations influences not just warfighting but the future flow of energy and information.

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Chapters

• 0:10 Welcome And Last Days Framing
• 0:32 Introducing The Greenland Focus
• 1:24 Tribal Politics And Media Fog
• 1:24 Note: duplicate timestamp removed
• 1:24 Correction: please ignore previous line
• 1:24 Introducing Trigonometry Interview
• 2:46 Dr. Pippa Malmgren’s Credentials
• 3:44 NATO, Denmark, And Greenland Status
• 4:46 The GIUK Gap And Nuclear Risk
• 5:51 The Arctic’s Role In The Space Race
• 7:20 Cables, Svalbard, And Data Vulnerability
• 8:17 Why Greenland Becomes A Priority
• 8:34 Star Wars Vs Star Trek Analogy
• 9:20 Tech’s Rise And Moral Concerns
• 10:03 Prophecy, Control, And The Antichrist
• 11:12 Teaching, Vindication, And Scripture
• 12:02 New Series Announcement And Closing Prayer

Transcript

00:10

Welcome everyone. This is Russ Scalzo Chronicles of the End Times. I hope you're doing well today and seeking the Lord Jesus Christ because we are in the last days. And we need to be in touch with the Lord. We need to be in touch with the Holy Spirit in order to navigate our lives, let alone help others navigate theirs. So today we're going to talk a little more about this Greenland thing. Usually, I like to just talk scripturally and how it affects different topics in the news. But I thought this was very interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along. Because there's a lot of talk, as we all know. Many, many times you don't get the facts. Many times, you don't get the details. And it's more about the tribal wars. Now I hate this guy. I love this guy. And then no matter what anybody says, I'm staying here on this side of the fence. And it's like rooting for a football team, right? You're not going to change your allegiance, uh, whether they change quarterbacks or they go 0-16 or whatever the case may be. So we're kind of trapped in that tribal atmosphere right now. But I'm hoping that what I'm going to share with you today will clear up a little bit of the fog and talk about some things that are not being discussed, at least that I've ever heard. I don't know if you ever listened to Trigonometry, which is really an amazing podcast. I love these guys. Uh, they get a lot of amazing guests on. They're closing down on two million subscribers, and they're really very intelligent. I just like that about them. They try to stay right in the middle. They just want to know what's going on. It's really very informative. So I want you to take a listen to Dr. Pippa Malgren. She was recently interviewed by trigonometry. Dr. Malgren is a digital diviner, they like to call her. She uses years of experience at the highest levels of geopolitics and industry to identify trends and other things. And she is right now in Greenland. And she speaks with the officials of Greenland. She was also at Davos for the conference. So she has some real insights. She worked for two former presidents. She has a lot of experience and she's worth listening to. So, let's listen to this little clip. I encourage you to go and get into trigonometry and watch this whole interview. I mean, it's a long interview. I'm only going to do a couple of pieces, small pieces out of it, but it will benefit you. Let's take a listen to what she has to say about what's going on in the background of all this green land chaos.

Speaker

02:45

To people who've been living their lives, feeding their families, going to their things, not really paying too much attention. What on earth is going on?

Speaker 1

02:53

Okay. It's so great to see you guys, first of all. Um, and gosh, you know, I know you started out as comedians, and this is a moment where we need humor in dealing with this issue because it's a lot of heavy stuff. Bottom line is the United States has said to its NATO partners that it needs to have a greater presence on the island of Greenland, which is the largest island in the world. It's an Arctic island, and there it is in the background, it's cold and snowing here. And under the terms of a treaty from 1951, the United States does have the right to do pretty much anything it wants to militarily here. So the island is part of the royal of the kingdom of Denmark, but it is strategic security-wise aligned with the United States. The Greenlanders, and there are only 58,000 of them that live here, they have been going through a process of a kind of a long, slow divorce with Denmark. But it's not a finished divorce. They're not independent yet. And their view is they want to be independent of all of you guys. And um, they're annoyed because when President Trump said, well, we just gotta have Greenland, and he used the language, we'll take it if we have to, because they're like, wait, we live here, so you can't just take it. So everybody's been on very high stress around this. I'll give you my personal view based on my background working on geopolitics globally, but also I've been very focused for the last five years or so on the geopolitics of the Arctic to try to understand why this is happening. And I think part of the answer is Ukraine. So the president's trying to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. So far, pretty much everybody agrees. Russia says yes, uh, we'll get to an agreement. Ukraine now says yes, we'll get to an agreement. The parties that say no, we want to continue the war, are the Europeans for a variety of different reasons. And so the president says, okay, well, the US doesn't want to continue in this war, and we think it's a stupid war. And if you guys want to carry on, then Greenland becomes critically important because where would Russian nuclear weapons, either on submarines or ships, where would they come through towards the United States? They would come through this physical space known as the Juk Gap, the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap. And it's literally the body of water between Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, Scotland. That becomes a place you would have to have a close eye on to see whether the Russians were bringing nuclear weapons into the Atlantic. So they're like, obviously, Russia's gonna escalate if the Europeans continue with the war. How would they do that? Nuclear. Where would they do that? Potentially also aiming at the United Kingdom, because Scotland is the base for all of Britain's nuclear capability. If Britain wants to continue the war, that becomes, call it a target. And so that's one reason, but I'll give you one more, and it's one that is never mentioned in the press. And that is that the Arctic is now central to the space race. So there's a massive race going on between the US and China, especially, to get into space. Now you say, but wait, don't we have enough problems here on Earth? Why are we spending all this money on space? And the answer is because it represents three very important things: the unlimited energy, unlimited resources without having to dig Earth up anymore, and unlimited internet connectivity. The unlimited energy is space-based solar power where you beam energy from space to Earth in radio waves, so it's safe. And now you can have energy anywhere you want. That is progressing very fast. Already Google has announced the Sun Catcher Project. So they're saying we're going to put our data centers in orbit and we're going to beam back not just data, but energy. Plus, the moon, it turns out, has very special moon dust. It's called regolith. And in the regolith is something called helium-3. Now, helium-3 is very rare on Earth. We found a patch of it in Minnesota, but it's very hard to find it on Earth. But there's loads of it on the moon. So there's a race to get to it because helium-3 is very densely packed energy. And you need it to do nuclear fusion, and we're getting closer to nuclear fusion, which would be unlimited energy. And you need it to do uh quantum computing because you use it to cool down the computers. So it matters who gets there first. And the thing, then the second is resources, asteroid mining, which sounds far away, but coming. And third is the connection and the key to the Arctic is the connection to the mega constellations of satellites that surround Earth. One of the best ways to get the data to Earth and then to you and me and our cell phones is through one point in the Arctic called Svalbard. And that is the ground station for the polar satellites and the polar related data. Now, in 2022, somebody started cutting the internet cables that connect the space link to the sub-sea cables, which is the fastest internet cable in the world. And you're like, why is that in the Arctic? And the answer is because this is like an umbilical cord for data from space to connect to everything around Earth. So if somebody's cutting the cable, then there's suddenly a need to have a backup. Now, where would you have a backup? You need another Arctic site. So where should there be other ground stations? Greenland would be one. And that helps explain why the United States is suddenly making this a super high priority, is because there's a point of vulnerability in what the Pentagon now calls the most important warfighting domain, which is space. So that's another reason why this is suddenly happening.

Speaker 2

08:33

Pretty amazing stuff. She brought up one analogy I'd like to mention to you about Star Wars and Star Trek. Now you might be out there, going, “I don't know anything about that stuff.” I'm not a sci-fi guy. Well, I'm kind of a sci-fi guy. But pretty much, I think a lot of people know Star Wars was about Star Wars technology to fight the enemy. And Star Trek was more a peaceful mission, you know, to discover new things and to use technology for peaceful reasons and to improve the general population's lifestyle. And I thought that was a pretty good analogy. So, her opinion is that we should use technology, you know, to blow each other up, to kill millions of people, when we should be putting our heads together and using this technology for the betterment of mankind. The bottom line is that technology has been ruling the world for quite a few decades, but in the last 25 years, it has made a huge difference. With the internet, mobile phones, and now quantum technology and AI, it's like living in science fiction. You may not have watched science fiction, but now you're living in it. Those of us who love the Lord and read the Word of God, we know that this technology is gonna turn against us someday. I think morally it already has. But the world is changing, and these changes are known to God. And God has seen all these changes from the beginning of time. How will all this end up? All I know is what the Bible says. No matter how much technology we have, people are still people, and God is still God. When I first started teaching this earnestly in the early 90s, people would look at me like I had two heads when I talked about how the Antichrist was going to control the entire world. Everything we do, where we go, how we get there, the money we have, the money we spend, the money we save, what we spend it on, and who we're hanging around with. People would look at me and say, Yeah, I don't see how that's possible. And that was before the internet exploded. I still have people emailing me, or if I meet them in a restaurant or in a food store, and they'll say, Remember those things you used to say? Remember those teachings you used to give? Well, how did you know all this was gonna happen? I read the Bible. I believed what the Bible said. It wasn't me, that's for sure. I was only relaying what God had declared. And that's our job is to relay the message that God has declared. The world is broken, it needs a savior. Eternity is coming, and so is the king. I hope this helps. Clarified a few issues for you. I'll be doing a new series with my life group, my wife and I. It's called The Cup of Iniquity and the Cross. It's gonna be very interesting, I think, to talk about how God dealt with nations in the past and how he's gonna deal with the nations in the future. So, I'm going to share some of that on my podcast. I think you will be blessed by it. And as always, I just want us all to see Jesus more clearly, understand who God is. I'll end with this scripture in Second Peter chapter three, beginning with verse 17. You, therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability, but grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. This is Russ Scalzo for Chronicles of the End Times. Keep looking up. The King is coming.

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