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When #Trump Talks About #Greenland, He’s Talking About #ClimateChange
Trump has made his fixation on Greenland abundantly clear—enough so to unnerve many of the people who live there.…. #JDVance is traveling there today…. As part of the trip, *#NationalSecurity* Adviser #MikeWaltz [#signalgate] & #Energy Secy #ChrisWright were scheduled to visit a US military base; Greenland’s PM, Mute B. Egede, called the visit a “provocation.”…
#USExpansionism
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/climate-change-arctic-greenland-trump-military/682225/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcTCijaCBUWvBFad8q8zBQ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Their aim, #JDVance said in a video, is to check up on #Greenland’s security, because *unnamed other countries* could “use its territories & its waterways to threaten the United States.” And these are real concerns for the #UnitedStates, rooted in #ClimateChange: As #PolarIce melts away, superpowers are vying for newly open #ShippingRoutes in the #ArcticOcean & largely unexplored #mineral & #FossilFuel reserves.
#Arctic #warming could pose a threat to America’s #security too: #Alaska may have new vulnerabilities to both #China & #Russia; changes in #ocean salinity & temp might interfere w/ #submarine detection systems; extremes of climate change, including #permafrost thaw in Russia, may drive #economic #instability, social #unrest, & territorial claims. [#Trump #Intelligence Agencies excluded #ClimateChange from the annual #ThreatAssessment report for the first time in decades — too *woke*]
During the #Biden admin, the #US military & #NATO had both started to treat #GlobalWarming in the Arctic as a matter of real #military concern. Whether that will continue under #Trump is an open question [is it?]. Even as Trump has tried to erase US-govt action on #ClimateChange, when he talks about #Greenland, he’s tacitly acknowledging that rising temperatures are rapidly changing that part of the world—& US interests there.
He will continue to threaten and try to annex any land above the 50th parallel north. It’s the only place that will be almost comfortable and livable in 30 years. Fresh water, rare earth minerals and a more temperate climate makes all land above the 50th a mighty tempting target.
@Nonilex different concerns, for democrats like Biden the approach to climate change was to try to find ways to fix it. For Trump is different: what kind of new "deals" he can make.
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@Nonilex ... I wonder why ice is melting. US think it will stop immediately if then got their hands of the island?
I think the more they got their hands on, the more problems they will have.