- ...the island’s location is “strategic,” particularly for monitoring adversaries such as China and Russia...the speediest path for a Russian ballistic missile to hit the US would be to send it over the North Pole and Greenland.
- ...a top-notch place for power-hungry data centers, which require lots of cooling — making icy terrain a perfect place for them...
- Greenland is also rich in rare earth minerals, which are key for manufacturing goods in the high-tech world we live in. ...
- ...capitalizing on the expected, but not yet viable, Transpolar Sea Route, a future shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, via the center of the Arctic Ocean. “Russia is very interested...And China is participating in this...
- “Russia is, of course, only talking about civil shipping and trade. But there is no doubt that it is also about more. Very quickly, it can become military.”...
After the war, in 1946, President Harry Truman put in a secret bid to buy Greenland for $100 million in gold and a piece of Alaska...
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