The Arctic End Game — Great Powers Clash as Europe Crumbles

America Joins the Race with China and Russia for Arctic Resources and Control of Sea Routes...

Through a commercial and strategic lens, the 47th US President’s 2019 proposal to seize Greenland — and his decision to make it a cornerstone of his second-term foreign policy — was not shooting from the hip. It was a calculated move for control of the Arctic.

Greenland — the world’s largest island, with a tiny population of 58,000, geologically part of the North American continent but geopolitically part of Europe — holds trillions of dollars in untapped resources, enabling, in one fell swoop, the US to re-collateralise its mountains of debt. Which is why Trump has threatened to target tariffs against Denmark and has refused to rule out taking the Arctic island by force. As night follows day, Greenland will fall under US control.

Opposition to American control by Greenlands indigenous Inuit population has been remarkably muted. The reason? Denmark, employed the standard European colonial playbook against them until relatively recently, including child abduction, forced sterilisation an…