What attracts America? The riches of the rare earth mine Kvanefjeld, neodymium, which is used to make the most powerful magnets, used both by the army in railguns and by industry in electric motors and turbines.
By the way, back in 2019, the media wrote that Donald Trump is considering buying Greenland. In December 2024, having already become president, Trump said that Washington needs to control Greenland. In response to this statement, Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede pointed out that the territory is not for sale and will never be sold.
At the same time, the media reported that the people of Denmark regret the state's longstanding treatment of Greenlanders as a second-class people. In other words, Denmark is saying, "We will not give it back!"
But Trump issues a powerful new argument, believing that Greenland's incorporation into the U.S. is necessary to protect the "free world."
"Our message to Denmark is very simple: you haven't done a very good job for the people of Greenland," US Vice President Vance said during a trip to the Pituffik space base in northwest Greenland. "You haven't invested enough in the people of Greenland and in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful continent.
"I think Greenland realizes that it should belong to the United States. And if Denmark and the EU don't understand that, we need to explain it to them. We need Greenland. It is very important for international security that we have Greenland."
According to former senior Danish intelligence analyst Jacob Kaarsbo, Trump may well be deliberately inflaming the situation to hasten Greenland's secession from Denmark and then impose some form of economic and political patronage on the young state. Whatever the case, public calls for the island's transfer to U.S. control are growing louder.
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