russia and the other arctic countries, including the us, are engaged in a sort of cold war underneath the ice. there's significant oil and everyone wants to control it. there's also military significance since icbms will go over the north pole if ww3 happens. russia has been doing lots of ops with their submarines and the us has been trying to counter it. the other countries involved are big mad too. greenland has abundant natural resources too. but mainly it's a strategic foothold, a place where the us wants to have lots of bases and operate out of to keep russia from doing anything we don't like as we fight over who gets the oil. in his first term trump floated the idea of buying greenland from denmark. denmark said no. trump is apparently still very interested and will push it hard his next term.
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