Jared Isaacman

So geologically it's actually just part of North America, but for historical reasons has political ties to Europe.

And it is currently being administrated by the kingdom of Denmark.

The first and foremost thing is about national security.

I think this is the main, the main lens in which president Trump is looking at Greenland.

Securing Greenland is important because it's about corridor control.

So there's two ways to look at this.

The first is there's this thing called the Greenland Icelandic UK gap, and it's a small little corridor, which is a Naval choke point.

And it is the only way for Russian Naval forces and nuclear submarines to reach the Atlantic from its Arctic basis.

And as the Arctic ice starts to melt, more and more sea lanes in the Arctic is going to become navigable for a longer time.

And this also opens up the corridor to Asia, right?

China self-identifies as a near Arctic state, and it's been pursuing ambitions to become a polar great power.

They released a white paper in 2018 actually detailing its ambitions to build a polar Silk Road.

A misnomer, of course, because it's actually not a road, it's a sea route because they want to make sure that they have a way to access Europe.

So right now, the only way to get from China to Europe is through the Suez Canal.

And the Suez is controlled by Egypt, which is a U.S.

ally.

And it takes about 40 days to make that journey.

but opening up the sea route for China will cut that almost into half.

And so they want to have more navigable sea routes to get access to Europe.

And then the other map that showed this very clearly was released by the Wall Street Journal just a few days ago, is if you just actually look at the globe from the top view, so not the way that we are used to seeing it,