Trump’s bid to buy Greenland shows that the ‘scramble for the Arctic’ is truly upon us

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World powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating opens up a new frontier

Donald Trump’s cack-handed attempt to buy Greenland, and the shirty response of Denmark’s prime minister, provoked amusement last week. But it was mostly nervous laughter. The US intervention shone a cold light on a rapidly developing yet neglected crisis at the top of the world – the pillage of the Arctic.

 

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This is one of the most problematic articles written about the state of the Arctic I have ever read. The assumption of lawlessness is untrue, the mapping of the Great Game onto the Arctic is a tired old lie.

JoyAnnReid Yup...it's all about oil and money.....

Jasongaymes

The gamble is, once the ice melts - thanks to climate change - the ‘real green land’ becomes available, for grazing cows, playing golf...and the kind?

JoyAnnReid I think you greatly overestimate the thought process that was involved in this.

PORFA,QUE ALGUIEN QUITE A ESTE TIPEJO DEL MERCADO,ÉL Y LOS SUYOS LO CONTAMINAN TODO

waltb31 Someone will step in and take it over. Denmark isn't going to be able to stop Russia or China from doing so. There's gold in them there (newly revealed) hills.

JoyAnnReid My take on this as it is reveal to me; There is an agenda where greed is taking flight and is dress in white clothing to deceive the masses. If Climate Change goes ignored, is because the dark agenda is to exploit the land for Real State development, and the resident knows this.

the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead. “As we have stated, Greenland is not for sale,” a spokesperson for the Danish government said on Friday.

The picture is my home town of tasiilaq arcticwonder dot com, to eastern Greenland. This is the overseasadventuretravle destination

JoyAnnReid Oil and diamonds are 'big' in the arctic.

Climate change - which they all (intentionally) deny - is generating a war for resources

JoyAnnReid Dear Greenland, PLEASE buy America ASAP and save us from this living hell!

JoyAnnReid Like rats scrambling over either to get to the bow of the Titanic

are penguins people should penguins travel to gannymeade

jimmcquaid Yes, Putin's International Arctic forum has been going for years now, it sounds like a good thing but it is very, very bad. Like Davos but for people trying to invest in the Arctic's capitalist potential.

And still realDonaldTrump REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CRISIS

Raping the planet.

Every business man works towards to making good of bad situation.

I’ve often wondered why leftists suck up the drivel, reading the comments explains a lot.

I look at Melania with 45 and all I see is a manaquin. What is she doing there?

They don’t believe in climate change but they want Iceland? Do they want to recolonize their white base there and kick out the indigenous people as they did in America and elsewhere?

It's going to be one hell of a golf course

Putin and Trump pretend to deny climate change but in reality they want to take advantage of it for military and business purposes, then their denial is only for their public

It also shows that realDonaldTrump is a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket.

It is and someone's really keen to show muscle there

That’s not Trump’s goal. You’ve let a leaked thought build into something much bigger.

no, he’s just an idiot who had a dumb idea. Don’t make it out to be a smart, strategic move.

No, it’s the chance for year round skiing ⛷

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