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All the hoopla about the importance of the Arctic is somewhat belied by a lack of the resources really being devoted to it,
We’ve sort of been asleep at the switch,
said Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. This is about critical minerals. This is about natural resources. This is about, as the polar ice caps pullback, the Chinese are now cranking out ice breakers and pushing up there as well. So it's oil and gas. It's our national security."
You have Russia that is trying to become king of the Arctic, with 60-plus ice breakers, some of them nuclear power,
We are still in the waiting room when it comes to knowing exactly what the Trump administration means,
said Lill Rastad Bjorst, an associate professor at Aalborg University specialising in Greenland As the demand for minerals is rising, there is a need to go and look for untapped resources,
said Ditte Brasso Sorensen, an analyst at Think Tank Europa During the war -– while Denmark was occupied by Germany -– the US took over Greenland. In a sense they have never left,
I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’,
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’
I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States,
A friend of mine, a really, really experienced businessman, thinks we can get Greenland,
Trump told his National Security adviser, according to the book When it became public, they lost their political courage,
Trump said in 2021, according to The Times, despite the fact that the Danes had never actually considered selling the territory If Trump had just kept his mouth shut, we could have found out. But it was just gone, just completely gone,
he told others, according to the authors We should partner with a great power because Greenland is a rich country, we have everything here."
Resident Jens Ostermann, carrying a small child bundled up against the winter cold, said I think he's talking too loudly. I don't think you can take him seriously when he says he's going to take us over by force."
Mikael Ludvidsen, a resident of capital Nuuk, was skeptical about the president-elect's intentions, telling Reuters Warm but reserved welcome for Donald Trump Jr."
Some locals sported Make America Great Again caps to greet Trump Jr., with Greenlandic daily Sermitsiaq headlining its report Trump's reaction is a statement of how important Greenland is in the geopolitical area at this moment,
We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,
Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said He's popular in Greenland. So he can clearly be helpful to the Danish-Greenlandic relationship,
Damien Degeorges, a Reykjavik-based consultant specialising in Greenland, told Reuters I find it extremely ridiculous,
said Jeppe Finne Sorenson, a data engineer in the Danish capital
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