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lapfog_1

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3. Greenland was never about security

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 02:54 PM

Jan 5

it has always been about the minerals and global warming.

Right now, the minerals are hard to get to... building roads to mining sites, or even the mines themselves are under quite a bit of ice and snow.

It is possible that the melting glaciers might expose some profitable mining.

That is why Trump wants Greenland.

Of course, those melting glaciers will threaten coastal cities around the world... not to mention climate change will make some areas uninhabitable ( hello Tehran! most of Saudi Arabia, north Africa ).

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Greenland was never about security lapfog_1 Jan 5 #3