Rare earth, real power: Why Trump triggered a global tug-of-war over Greenland

President Donald Trump insisted that the United States needs to “get” Greenland “, in one way or another. But this is not the first time that leaders in the United States have raised their eyes on the sprawling ice island.

Greenland is located in the middle of the disputed water between the United States, Russia and Western Europe, and is located at a point that can protect the northern Atlantic corridor from Russian ships and submarines. It was a major military point of view during the Cold War, and President Harry Truman offered to buy Greenland from the Danish in 1946.

The island is also a transfer point for communications cables that cross the Atlantic Ocean. European officials claim that the Russian “ghost ships” were destroying such cables by dropping their beacon and withdrawing them across the ocean floor.

The United States will not only provide the United States, the shortest way to Europe, but also the opportunity to strengthen the early ballistic missile warning system and put radar at the ocean bottom to follow the movements of Russian and Chinese ships.

The United States accused Denmark of Greenlands’s treatment as “second -class citizens” during Vans to the Arctic base

The island is located at the top of the profitable supplies of rare and rare ground minerals, such as cobalt, nickel, uranium and iron – the necessary materials for electric cars, medical equipment, electronics, batteries and advanced defense systems.

The United States was once a large product for rare ground minerals, but China has been brought out by China. China is currently dominating the global supply chain with access to 60 % of the world’s supplies, but Greenland can be a “games change”, according to national security lawyer Irina Tsukrman.

“Their total resources for this rare land can be greater than China’s possessions,” Fox News Digital said.

Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Osha Vans, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Minister Chris Wright visited, along with Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, Greenland on Friday.

“Our message to Denmark is very simple: you did not do a good job by the people of Greenland,” this is what the vice president commented on the trip.

“I was without benefiting from the people of Greenland, and I have decreased in the security architecture of this amazing landmark that is incredible full of incredible people. This must change and because it has not changed, and that is why President Trump’s policy in Greenland is what it is.”

“We need Greenland for international safety and security,” Trump says, “We need Greenland for international safety and security,”

Infographic with a map showing Greenland, United States and Denmark. (Guilllermo Rivas Pachecovalentina Breschiclara Moineau/AFP via Getty Images)

It is estimated that Greenland has the eighth largest rare land reserves, Behind the United States directly But its minerals have proven difficult to reach – 80 % of the island’s surface covered with thick ice panels. The island also contains a lot of red tape: strict environmental and social impact requirements mean that the allowance is time.

The country’s economy is currently built on fishing and luxury: Denmark has advanced about $ 700 million every year, or nearly half of Greenland’s budget.

The United States has been attached to “billions of dollars” in investing in metal mining in Greenland as part of an attempt to reduce its dependence on China, although China has already been limited to mining projects there.

“China is more concerned about reaching the Arctic more than these minerals,” Tsukarman said.

About 80 % of Greenland is covered with ice, making access to the ground rare. (Reuters/Leonard Voyger/File Photo)

“China has focused its metal efforts on Africa, as it has already preceded American Russia on the Arctic,” she continued. “There were increasing talks about the increase in NATO in the region to deter Russian and Chinese ships from entering.”

There is oil and gas as well, but in 2021, Greenland acknowledged a ban on all the excavation and extraction of future oil and gas.

As the ice covers continued to melt, the water surrounding Greenland has become more navigation – which means that the ships traveling from Asia and Europe can sail in the polar roads and avoid heading south to Panama and Swiz channels.

The American and Danish defenses on the island have become outdated, just as Russia is renewing its ports in the Arctic. Greenland has once hosted dozens of rules and outposts, but today it hosts only one: Pitufik Space Force. Once she is home to about 10,000 American soldiers, only about 200 are deployed there now.

“We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to face it,” Trump said in an interview on Wednesday.

Land opposes the idea of ​​joining the United States to a large extent

In response to Trump’s threats to capture Greenland, Denmark announced an investment of two billion dollars in defense on the island in January.

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Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service decided to be Greenland “a priority for Russia, and its strength will appear through aggressive behavior and threat, with which it will carry more danger than escalating than ever in the Arctic.”

“We have not invested enough in the Arctic for many years,” Danish Defense Minister TROELS LUND POULSEN recently admitted. “Now we are planning to be stronger.”