Why does Trump want the US to take over Greenland? This is the real reason from Geopolitical Economy Report

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Why does Trump want the US to take over Greenland? This is the real reason

27 minutes Posted Mar 17, 2025 at 12:00 am.

Greenlanders don't want to join USA

(CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland

Targeting China

Natural resources

Independence from Denmark

Why they oppose US annexation

Protests in Greenland

Greenlandic political parties

(CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland again

Imperialism

(CLIP) Trump's Manifest Destiny

Expand US territory

(CLIP) Trump wants to "enlarge" US

Monroe Doctrine

Geopolitics of the Arctic

Map distortions

Geopolitics of Arctic Circle

(CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China

(CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"

China

(CLIP) Trump on Greenland

(CLIP) NATO chief Mark Rutte

NATO imperialism

(CLIP) Trump on US troops

NATO imperialism

JD Vance

(CLIP) Vance on China

US war with China

Supply chains

Ukraine's minerals

Greenland's minerals

(CLIP) Vance on natural resources

(CLIP) Vance on Greenland

Greenland's critical minerals

Red, White, and Blueland

US imperialism

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Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural resources, especially critical minerals.

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