Nach Grönland greifen
https://www.hoover.org/research/reaching-greenland
Nach Grönland greifen
https://www.hoover.org/research/reaching-greenland
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At *Defining Ideas*, [Thomas Henriksen](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/thomas-h-henriksen) analyzes President Trump’s renewed interest in pursuing an American acquisition of Greenland. After reviewing the history of Washington’s interest in the large north Atlantic landmass, he notes that at present, “neither Denmark nor self-ruling Greenland is officially interested in selling the island.” However, given the high North’s declining ice coverage and increased shipping traffic in recent years, geopolitical pressures from Russia and China, and Greenland’s high concentration of rare earth minerals, Henriksen sees potential for a deal with Denmark that would increase America’s military and commercial footprint on the world’s largest island.
Good article, geo-strategically it does make sense for the US to pursue Greenland. Diplomatically, my god I wish he did it with a LOT more tact.
As a Chinese I would like to buy Guam, Midway and Hawaii. How about that? And there’s some other American real state I would like to buy. The locals? Never mind them. We are powerful. This is in our interest. They will just have to submit to our will.
Funny that Iceland would be included in the cover image.
As it happens, the overwhelming majority of Greenland’s populace is located along its western coast and southern tip while the east only hosts around 3000 people and would effectively become the US‘ soft underbelly if absorbed.
Ergo, the closest population centers to Greenland’s eastern half are in Iceland which means the island serves as an offshore bastion.
A territory that is part of the Danish Kingdom for 800 years. And in the times of great despair, when Hitler invaded Denmark, US troops used the weakness of Denmark to invade the country and refused to close their bases and its soldiers to leave after WW II.
I feel like everyone who has covered it, has covered it the same way…
This kinda legitamizing the notion that the US doesn’t have sufficient clout in that relationship to get whatever security arrangement they want from Greenland…
I think its just they want the extraction rights and the rest is just dressing for that.