Donald Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland and make it a US territory, even though 85% of people there oppose this. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons: the USA wants to block China from the Arctic region and to profit from the territory's natural resources, especially critical minerals.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjXzhd4GVzE

Topics

0:00 Greenlanders don't want to join USA

0:58 (CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland

1:10 Targeting China

1:58 Natural resources

2:59 Independence from Denmark

3:40 Why they oppose US annexation

4:32 Protests in Greenland

5:57 Greenlandic political parties

7:25 (CLIP) Trump threatens Greenland again

7:59 Imperialism

8:44 (CLIP) Trump's Manifest Destiny

9:16 Expand US territory

9:29 (CLIP) Trump wants to "enlarge" US

9:59 Monroe Doctrine

10:45 Geopolitics of the Arctic

11:32 Map distortions

12:44 Geopolitics of Arctic Circle

13:52 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China

14:15 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"

14:41 China

15:25 (CLIP) Trump on Greenland

16:02 (CLIP) NATO chief Mark Rutte

16:21 NATO imperialism

17:48 (CLIP) Trump on US troops

18:41 NATO imperialism

19:00 JD Vance

19:16 (CLIP) Vance on China

19:45 US war with China

20:58 Supply chains

21:37 Ukraine's minerals

22:11 Greenland's minerals

22:29 (CLIP) Vance on natural resources

22:50 (CLIP) Vance on Greenland

23:20 Greenland's critical minerals

24:28 Red, White, and Blueland

25:11 US imperialism

26:51 Outro