Geopolitical Economy Report17 Mar 2025

Why does Trump want the US to take over Greenland? This is the real reason

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

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