Trump wanting Greenland

 

EVERYONE LAUGHED WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WANTED GREENLAND. NOBODY IS LAUGHING NOW. HERE'S THE REAL REASON.

It was never about the ice.

It was never about the 60,000 people who live there.

It was never even really about the rare earth minerals.

It was about something most people have never heard of.

It's called the GIUK Gap.

Greenland. Iceland. United Kingdom.

A naval chokepoint that sits between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic — the passage through which any ship, any submarine, any military vessel traveling from the Arctic to the rest of the world must pass.

Whoever controls Greenland controls that gap.

And whoever controls that gap controls the future of global shipping.

Here's why that matters right now.

The Arctic is melting.

Fast.

Arctic sea ice is declining 13% every decade.

The Arctic shipping route which runs from Asia to Europe through the Arctic Ocean is 40% shorter than the Suez Canal route.

30% faster in transit time.

By 2030, that route is projected to increase trade volumes between Asia and Europe by 5% to 10%.

Researchers estimate that by 2030, up to 4.7% of all world trade roughly two thirds of the current Suez Canal traffic, could be rerouted through the Arctic.

Think about what that means.

The Suez Canal, the busiest shipping lane on earth...carved in the 1860s, could lose two thirds of its traffic to a route that barely existed a decade ago.

And Greenland sits directly at the entrance to that route.

China already declared itself a "near-Arctic state" in 2018.

Russia controls over half of the Arctic Ocean coastline and has been building military and commercial Arctic infrastructure for years.

Russia's cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route grew almost fivefold between 2014 and 2020.

They are targeting 193 million tons of Arctic cargo by 2030.

Trump watched all of this.

And decided America needed to own the chokepoint — not just access it.

Is he right?

Harvard's Belfer Center called Greenland "the geostrategic linchpin connecting the Arctic, North America, and Europe."

War on the Rocks, a foreign policy journal wrote: 

"Trump's emphasis on ownership may be misplaced. But his assessment that Greenland is a strategically critical territory is correct."

My rich dad taught me something about assets that I never forgot.

He said: "The best time to buy an asset is before the world realizes what it's worth."

In 1867, the US bought Alaska for $7.2 million.

Every analyst at the time called it "Seward's Folly."

Today, Alaska produces 500,000 barrels of oil per day and controls the Pacific's strategic northern flank.

Trump isn't crazy.

He's just early.

The question my rich dad would be asking right now is not:

"Can the US take Greenland?"

It's:

"Who else is already positioning there — and what does it cost you if they get there first?"

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