Your final paragraph had me spitting my tea with laughter. Honestly, this Greenland business is so nuts, it does make such stupidity look sensible in comparison. Your Monty Python comparison is apt. In fact, I honestly feel like an America-invades-Greenland satirical film ought to have happened already, ideally starring Peter Sellers (along similar lines to The Mouse That Roared, about a small European country declaring war on America in order to lose and gain economic recovery support).