Trump says Greenland is next then pretends it’s not about mineral deposits but because Russian and Chinese are about to take it.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2008731521730183435
I actually suspect that, for the U.S., Greenland has absolutely nothing to do with Russia and China (or minerals, for that matter). That's just the PR around it.
What I suspect it's all about is Europe, the preemption of a near-future where the US has withdrawn from the continent as a "protector," a process which has already largely started.
In that future, Greenland becomes a potential beachhead - European territory that could one day give Europe independent strategic positioning in the Western hemisphere, like early warning systems, submarine facilities or air defense systems.
If it becomes American however, in that future Greenland could play a not dissimilar strategic role to the one it played during WW2 against the Germans. At the very least a denial and intimidation role.
This makes so much more sense than the lazy Russia/China framing. It works as PR precisely because it requires no one to think too hard, but it doesn't survive scrutiny. For one thing the notion that China would launch an amphibious assault to take over an island 60 times the size of Taiwan in the North Atlantic is beyond absurd.
posted by Satish Sharma at
09:05
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