The Guardian: Greenland – The precious treasure that the US administration is drooling over

There are plenty of souvenirs J. D. Vance will take home from Greenland, oil, gas, minerals, and that’s just the beginning, according to an article in The Guardian newspaper.

It appears that Usha, wife of Vice President J.D. Vance and the second lady in the US administration, is fascinated by Greenlandic culture.

Originally scheduled to accompany her young son to the famous Avanata Kemusirsoa dog sled race, the trip was rescheduled to include her husband, J. D. Vance.

The White House announced that the Second Lady was proud to visit the Petovik space base with her husband to learn more about Arctic security and the amazing work the space base does.

It wasn’t clear at the time of writing whether Petovik had any recreational facilities, but the place is expected to have a year-round après-ski atmosphere.

Vance’s son now has to stay home from school, instead of enjoying a taxpayer-funded trip to a country his father and his friends are openly seeking to annex.

The other good news is that Mike Waltz still has to go.

The second lady was scheduled to go on her short vacation with the president’s national security advisor, which isn’t unusual.

Joining these travelers will be journalists or random people Mike Waltz added to the chat group where he exchanged sensitive intelligence information.

The visitors were clearly not welcomed by the island’s residents.

On the contrary, the guests provoked such resentment among the local population that organizers were forced to shorten the trip to a single visit to a secure base.

Officials from the preliminary expedition reportedly went door-to-door in Greenland looking for a local family willing to welcome the guests into their modest home, but nothing materialized.

It’s deeply reprehensible to the island’s inhabitants that American officials would declare their country’s annexation because its rich and because they have a vested interest in owning it.

Whatever the justifications—whether security-related or outright greed for resources—this doesn’t mean that others can bully them and appropriate their land simply because its rich and important.

But it’s clear that the United States will continue to systematically pursue its geostrategic, military, political, and economic interests in the Arctic.

Stephen Moore, a former Trump economic advisor turned extremist at the Heritage Foundation, cheerfully explained to the BBC that the Greenlanders are “the people who will benefit most from this… Let’s call it a sale or an acquisition… Let’s not argue, but let’s continue our pursuit”.

“The islanders could be turned into millionaires overnight,” Moore added.

This reminds me of that old statistic that suggested that instead of fighting an expensive war to protect the island, the British government could have turned every Falkland Islander into a millionaire to ease the pain of Argentina’s takeover.

What else do people want in life but money?

Moore also speculated that there could be “trillions of dollars in minerals, oil, gas, and other precious metals that could be of value to the United States,” speaking as if he were glancing at the people of Greenland and the precious treasures beneath their feet.

Will the people of Greenland be an obstacle to those who aspire to dig and search for treasures beneath their feet?