https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2025/debatable-should-the-us-make-a-play-for-greenland What’s at stake President-elect Donald Trump has openly talked in recent days about bringing Greenland under US control, refusing to rule out military or economic force to achieve that aim. His comments have touched off a global debate, with European politicians warning Trump against threatening the sovereignty of an autonomous Danish territory. Greenland occupies a strategically important position […]

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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trump-right-panama-canal-should-be-american-214240 President-elect Donald Trump’s recent lament that the United States ceded control of the Panama Canal to Panama under the Carter administration is both strategically sound and historically resonant. Trump, the most consequential conservative president since Ronald Reagan, shares with the Gipper both an instinctual understanding of U.S. national interests and, more specifically, a healthy skepticism about the logic […]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/10/nuuk-greenland-trump-denmark-00197070 The island’s rare earth minerals and plum Arctic position have turned it into a geopolitical hotspot and the object of American fantasies. NUUK, GREENLAND — At a recent Friday night kaffemik — a traditional, coffee-fueled gathering — Jørgen Boassen reclined at the end of a long table covered in bits of leftover whale skin and cake, wearing […]