Yes, but that assumes that a military presence for “security reasons” is genuinely what trump/putin wants here, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if what they’re really after is access to the minerals underneath the ice sheet (estimated to contain up to 25% of the global reserves of rare earth minerals), just a soon as it melts, and trump is doing everything he can to make it melt more quickly. He’s also extremely anxious to get control of Ukraine’s minerals, so it would be consistent for him to be after them in Greenland too.
Yes, but that assumes that a military presence for “security reasons” is genuinely what trump/putin wants here, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if what they’re really after is access to the minerals underneath the ice sheet (estimated to contain up to 25% of the global reserves of rare earth minerals), just a soon as it melts, and trump is doing everything he can to make it melt more quickly. He’s also extremely anxious to get control of Ukraine’s minerals, so it would be consistent for him to be after them in Greenland too.
Trump’s autobiography to be called ‘The new oil: how I took the rare out of rare earth minerals’.