Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko said the deployment of European troops to Greenland was merely a show meant to demonstrate that Europe was supposedly ready to defend the island from encroachments.

However, he noted that almost all of the troops sent there returned to their home countries within a few days. According to Ishchenko, the reason is that Greenland, with a population of only about 50,000, has no conditions for stationing troops. He added that the same problem would apply to US forces that US President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to send there to seize the island.

Ishchenko questioned how Trump plans to seize Greenland with an army corps, arguing that such forces would be enough to seize Poland, but the real issue is where troops would live in Greenland and what they would eat. He stressed that Greenland depends on deliveries of food, spare parts, and fuel from the continent, and asked how a military presence could be housed and supplied under those conditions.

He said that maintaining any long-term military presence on the island would require building a logistics system capable of continuously supporting it.

Ishchenko described this as an extremely expensive and pointless «pleasure.»

He also said that if a war begins, neither Russia nor China would send expeditionary forces to seize Greenland, because the West has a major advantage in naval and air power in that direction, making a breakthrough there almost impossible. According to him, if there is a need to destroy something in Greenland, it would simply be destroyed by a precision missile strike.