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You can never convince me that this wasn't directly ordered by Putin himself. It's his exact MO and Drumpf is his leashed pet.
This is like the Panama Canal thing again. Which of his handlers thinks this is important, and why?
Putin.
Climate change and the melting of the Arctic ice has intensified interest in Greenland’s natural resources. The island could become the next mini.g frontier. For example, KoBold Metals -a joint venture partly backed by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Michael Bloomberg- and operated by Bluejay Mining in the UK, has been drlling there for critical minerals since 2022.
The outgoing U.S. administration under President Joe Biden has been offering advice to Greenland officials to draft a mining investment law for some time, all aimed at prodding investment in Greenland at standards considered higher than Chinese-linked rivals.
Or that of Australia. In 2023, Greenland Minerals -which is a 100-percent subsidiary of an Australian mining company- initiated arbitration proceedings against the Governments of Greenland and Denmark for the right to mine in Greenland. The Australian company seeks to gain the right to mine in Greenland or USD 11.5bn in compensation (the sum is almost four times Greenland’s annual GDP).
Access to the Arctic (maybe a similar playbook than China's pursuing with Russia?) may be a thing, too. Just a few weeks ago, for example, Greenland's capital Nuuk opened an International Airport, enabling larger plane landings in the country for the first time in their history.
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory.
Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a "double digit billion amount" in krone, or at least $1.5bn (£1.2bn).
But to be fair here, this spending package has been cooking for a while. The head of the armed forces wrote in LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago that the Arctic was priority one. The timing is obviously suspicious but it’s not like Denmark wasn’t already going to increase spending.
What an asshole, through and through (Trump, of course).
Is he trying to distract from his friend and pick for A.G. Matt Gaetz, drugging and raping children?
He’s never trying to distract from crises, his personality is just naturally like this.
I thought Gaetz has already rejected?
Yes rejected weeks ago, but reinserted into the MSM news cycle as the report on Gaetz abhorrent misconduct was released yesterday.
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