Mark Landler
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314 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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Well, I guess I would answer that on two levels.
I think Donald Trump wants Greenland, in a sense, coming from his background as a real estate developer.
He wants to acquire territory for the United States.
Greenland would be a larger new acquisition for the United States in square miles than the Louisiana Purchase, than Alaska, than some of the other major expansions of the United States.
So that's on a very visceral level.
It's simply about expanding the footprint of the country while he is president.
Right.
But there's also a more strategic argument here.
And that argument is that Greenland sits in a very contested part of the world in the Arctic.
It sits atop these very valuable minerals known as rare earth minerals.
For that reason, other countries are going to become increasingly interested in Greenland, the Russians, the Chinese.
And Trump's argument, in short, is we need Greenland.
We need Greenland as a frontline place to protect U.S.
national security.
We need Greenland because we want to exploit its mineral riches.
And we can't do any of that alone.
unless we actually own it.
It's not just enough to have a military base there, which the United States does have.
We need to be the owners in order to get the full advantage of the protection of Greenland to be able to exploit it economically.
Well, the point is the U.S.
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