I’ve seen a lot of answers with other good reasons, but I think the main reason has slipped under the radar: the US wants to control the naval routes (via Baffin Bay) between the Atlantic and Pacific through the arctic which are progressively opening up more due to climate change.
Currently Denmark and Canada each control one side of that passage, but changing either to being under US control would effectively allow them to control trade flows through those routes.
Okay, serious talk, I can kinda understand the last 3 in a “makes sense to a MAGAt” kinda way, but why the fuck is he threatening Greenland?
I’ve seen a lot of answers with other good reasons, but I think the main reason has slipped under the radar: the US wants to control the naval routes (via Baffin Bay) between the Atlantic and Pacific through the arctic which are progressively opening up more due to climate change.
Currently Denmark and Canada each control one side of that passage, but changing either to being under US control would effectively allow them to control trade flows through those routes.
It houses a NATO base that would be strategically important should Putin try to expand Russia’s war into Western Europe.
Except for Mexico, they all threaten economic and/or strategic interests of Russia.
Mineral rights.
Id say maybe they think Greenland will become more comfortable while totally fucking the rest of the planet