Trump wants Greenland for its extensive Rare Earth Elements, not because heâs worried about the strategic defense importance of the island/continent to the US.
REEâs are critical for electronics manufacture in the USA and the world. Large deposits of iron, copper, uranium and titanium donât hurt either.
The current treaty with Greenland/Denmark permits the USA to put whatever defense infrastructure on the island as we wish; there is no limit in the treaty. So there is no defense justification for our ownership of the island. In fact, as is apparent, our acquisitive action may severely weaken NATO, hurting our defense.
Just as we learned with Venezuela, the reason for military action was not really drugs but Oil. In the same way, Trump is justifying the action in Greenland using defense as a ruse to secure significant mining resources for the USA and its companies.
Scott Hunt
Oro Valley
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