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Why does Trump want the US to take over Greenland? This is the real reason
Published 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Description
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.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjXzhd4GVzE
Topics
0:00 Greenlanders don't want to join USA
0:58 (CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland
1:10 Targeting China
1:58 Natural resources
2:59 Independence from Denmark
3:40 Why they oppose US annexation
4:32 Protests in Greenland
5:57 Greenlandic political parties
7:25 (CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland again
7:59 Imperialism
8:44 (CLIP) Trump's Manifest Destiny
9:16 Expand US territory
9:29 (CLIP) Trump wants to "enlarge" US
9:59 Monroe Doctrine
10:45 Geopolitics of the Arctic
11:32 Map distortions
12:44 Geopolitics of Arctic Circle
13:52 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China
14:15 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
14:41 China
15:25 (CLIP) Trump on Greenland
16:02 (CLIP) NATO chief Mark Rutte
16:21 NATO imperialism
17:48 (CLIP) Trump on US troops
18:41 NATO imperialism
19:00 JD Vance
19:16 (CLIP) Vance on China
19:45 US war with China
20:58 Supply chains
21:37 Ukraine's minerals
22:11 Greenland's minerals
22:29 (CLIP) Vance on natural resources
22:50 (CLIP) Vance on Greenland
23:20 Greenland's critical minerals
24:28 Red, White, and Blueland
25:11 US imperialism
26:51 Outro