Cartography has always shaped worldview and geopolitics, and often for the worse. So it does in the era of Donald Trump.
President Trump has made no secret of his designs on Greenland, repeating threats to acquire the territory through a financial transaction or military force.
One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically located and rich in rare metals.
“President Trump says that the United States ‘will get Greenland.’ Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post. Nunarput avataaniit eqqaaneqaraangat ilisimasassaraarput. Kisianni aalassatsinniarneqassanngilagut. Præsident Trump...
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New Vision on MSNWhy Is Trump So Interested In Greenland? Location, For OneGreenland, which President Donald Trump wants to annex on grounds of US national and international security, is a self-governing Danish territory in the Arctic covered in ice, with untapped mineral resources and geostrategic importance.
Far beyond ice, Greenland is a key piece in world geopolitics, combining mineral wealth and military presence in the United States Greenlandes are going to the polls today to vote for an early
President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland highlights the island’s growing strategic value, from rare earth mineral wealth to its role in Arctic defense.
An international team of polar ecologists, geographers, and marine scientists has found that global warming has, over the past 20 years, melted enough glacier ice in Greenland that an additional 1,620 kilometers of that country's coastline is now exposed to the elements.
Greenland, which US President Donald Trump wants to annex on grounds of US national and international security, is a self-governing Danish territory in the arctic covered in ice, with untapped mineral resources and geostrategic importance.
At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark,