This is why WE need Greenland. Any questions? pic.twitter.com/s097x3HALe

— Tiffany Savage 🇺🇸 (@patriot_savvy) January 20, 2026

Okay, this is a scene from from the Netflix series The Diplomat, Season 2.  The submarines are home-ported at HM Naval Base Clyde (HMNB Clyde), commonly known as Faslane, on the Gare Loch in western Scotland.

People mocking the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland don’t know history.
1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska).
WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark was occupied.
1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.… pic.twitter.com/tP7k8sVzXi

— Mike Netter (@nettermike) January 20, 2026

The quickest way for Russia to penetrate our Naval defenses is steaming from the Arctic to the North Atlantic.  This is our military presence in the Arctic.  These are Russia's Arctic military positions in 1995. Today, Infantry, Naval, radar search and rescue air defense, the biggest buildup since the Soviets fell.  This is where we lost Russia's most sophisticated submarines in the North Atlantic for 3 weeks this is where we found their Losharik submarine, which we noticed only because it caught fire.  We have no idea how many more there are, but we think they are around here, here, here, and here.  This is Cregan [Creegan is a fictional city, a fictional name for Faslane].  Do you know what Creegan is?

A nuclear submarine base in Scotland.

All of the UK's nuclear weaponry is housed at "Creegan."  It's what makes them one of the 9 nuclear powers.  Also, it's the only base in Europe where we can dock our nuclear subs.  It's the last place we have any hope of detecting a Russian sub before it's in the vast Atlantic barreling toward New York.  Cregan is target #1 in the European theater of war

The Vice President says that all of the UK's nuclear weapons are stored in one place--a fictitious naval base called Creegan. In fact, at least four different locations in the UK store its nuclear warheads.  from IMDB.