Trump's Tech Donors Have Big Plans For Greenland

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A Trump takeover of Greenland could open the door to tech moguls’ mineral interests and their utopian aspirations.

International
Jan 29, 2025

President Donald Trump started his second term with his sights set on Greenland.

When Trump first proposed buying the Arctic nation during his first administration, it was treated like a joke. But in a phone call last week with Denmark’s prime minister, who controls the autonomous territory’s foreign policy, the president doubled down on his efforts to seize power. In the “aggressive and confrontational” conversation, Trump threatened tariffs if he didn’t get his way. In a news conference earlier this month, he also refused to rule out the use of military force. Now, Denmark is taking him seriously: On Monday, they announced a $2 billion military expansion in the Arctic.

Though the island is not for sale, the president emphasized Greenland’s importance to U.S. national security. Left unspoken: A U.S. takeover could weaken the country’s mining laws and ban on private property, aiding Trump donors’ plans to profit from the island’s mineral deposits and build a libertarian techno-city.

Trump, who has summarized his own natural resources policy as “drill, baby, drill,” would likely approach the island’s natural resources quite differently from Greenland’s current government, which has opposed large extractive projects.

In 2019, Trump’s ambassador to Denmark and Greenland visited a major rare-earth mining project on the island shortly before Trump’s first calls to buy the country. Opposition to the mine ushered liberal political party Inuit Ataqatigiit into power two years later, which halted the mine and banned all future oil development.
https://www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-donors-have-big-plans-for_greenland/

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1. They keep trying to

build this libertarian techno-city someplace and it ALWAYS fails. First up (that I remember) was Utopia on the high seas. That failed spectacularly. Besides people dropping out once they realized the services, etc., that they were used to would not be provided, they withdrew their money. Then people who WERE on the ship, who'd bought into this Utopia idea, realized the laws, rules, and regulations were working against them more than FOR them, and they fled.

Now the tech-bros think they can seize an entire country (in the extreme cold, at that) and turn IT in a Libertarian Utopia? Please, someone pass new copies of Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead to these guys and set a requirement they not only read them cover to cover, but write a precise treatise on each book and how one bolstered the other, and then compare it to various governments across the world.

These guys have to be brought into the real world of critical thinking somehow.

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2. NOW we know why. nt