What does Greenland make a strategic award at the time of increasing stress? And why now?

Nuke, Greenland – When US President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. Now someone is laughing.

Trump’s interest in Greenland, strictly restored after returning to the White House in January, an aggressively “America first” foreign policy comes as part of the platform which includes the demand to hand over mineral rights for Ukraine, in exchange for continuous military assistance, threatening to take control of the Panama Canal, and suggested that Canada must become 51st US State.

Increase in international stresses, global warming and changing world economy have put Greenland in the heart of debate on global trade and security, and Trump wants to ensure that the US controls this mineral-rich country that protects the Arctic and North Atlantic approach to North America.

Greenland is a self-governing region of Denmark, a long-time American ally that has rejected Trump’s overtrates. Denmark has also recognized Greenland’s right to freedom at the time of his selection.

Amidst concerns about foreign intervention and demands that Greenlanders should control their own fate, the island prime minister called a parliamentary election for Tuesday.

The world’s largest island, 80% of which is located above the Arctic Circle, is home to about 56,000 inute people, who have so far ignored the rest of the world.

Climate change is diluting Arctic ice, which promises to create a north -western route for international trade and rule over the region’s mineral resources over Russia, China and other countries.

“We must be clear: we are soon entering the Arctic century, and its most defined feature will be Greenland’s meteorite growth, continuous prominence and omnipresent effect,” Dwayne Manzeses, Polar Research and Policy Initiative said the managing director of Initiative.

“Greenland – is located at the intersection between North America, Europe and Asia, and with heavy resource capacity – will only become more strategically important, great with all powers and small will demand it to be paid to the court. One step forward is quite keen to go ahead and buy it.”

The following are some factors that are creating American interest in Greenland.

After the Cold War, the Arctic was largely a region of international cooperation. But climate change, hunting for rare resources, and after Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, is once again competing in the region due to increasing international tension.

Greenland sits out of the northeastern coast of Canada, with more than two-thirds of the area lying within the Arctic circle. This has made it important to protect North America since World War II, when the US has captured Greenland to ensure that this Nazi does not fall into the hands of Germany and protects the important North Atlantic Shipping Lane.

The US has maintained bases in Greenland since the war, and the pituitary space base, the east Thule Air Force Base, supports missile warnings for the US and NATO, missile defense and space monitoring operations. Greenland is also known as the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) gap, where NATO monitors Russian naval movements in the North Atlantic.

Greenland has a large deposit of so -called rare earth minerals, which are necessary to create everything from computer and smartphone to battery, solar and wind technologies that will remove infection from fossil fuels. The US Geological Survey has also identified potential offshore deposits of oil and natural gas.

Greenlanders are willing to develop resources, but they have made strict rules to protect the environment. There are also questions about Greenland’s viability of withdrawing mineral money due to the harsh climate of the region.

Greenland’s retrieving ice cap is exposing the country’s mineral funds and melting sea ice, which is once opening the mythological northwest route through the Arctic.

Greenland sits strategically with two possible routes through the Arctic, which will reduce the shipping time between the North Atlantic and Pacific and bypass the bottleneck of Suez and Panama Canals. While the routes are unlikely to be commercially viable for many years, they are attracting attention.

In 2018, China declared itself a “near-Archic state” in an attempt to achieve more impact in the region. China has also announced a plan to create a “Polar Silk Road” as part of its Global Belt and Road Initiative, which has created economic relations with countries around the world.

Then US State Secretary Mike Pompeo dismissed China’s move, saying: “Do we want the Arctic Ocean to turn into a new South China Sea, which is full of militarization and competitive regional claims?” A Chinese -backed Rare Earth mining project stopped in Greenland after a local government banned uranium mining in 2021.

The law enhancing self-government for Greenland in 2009 also recognized the country’s right to independence under international law. Referendum surveys suggest that most of Greenlanders are in favor of independence, although they are separated when they recover. The possibility of freedom raises questions about external interference in Greenland that can endanger American interests in the country.