What's that on? Greenland yes him Tramp wants so much? Certainly not golf courses, although that is not excluded either.
Trump insists that "Greenland is needed SAD for national security, not minerals," but his former national security adviser Mike Waltz in January 2024 told a different story - in a statement to Fox News, he said unequivocally that Greenland was the administration's focus because of "critical minerals" and "natural resources."
What did he mean?
OIL AND NATURAL GASES
Previous American attempts to buy Greenland were primarily related to expanding the sphere of power interests, primarily in the field of security, trade and the like, while natural resources were mentioned more in the context of fishing and whaling, and oil exploitation was mentioned here and there. Namely, in the period after of the Second World War Greenland tried unsuccessfully to establish oil production. The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland estimates that the west coast of Greenland hides about 18 billion barrels of oil, while the US Geological Survey has estimated that there may be twice as much crude in the east. OIL and natural gas. In 2021, Reuters reported that the results of expensive research conducted by the large companies "Shell", "Chevron" and "Exxonmobile" were unsatisfactory, and that production attempts were fundamentally unprofitable and were abandoned.
However, exploration and drilling in search of oil did not stop until 2021, when due to the negative consequences of oil exploration and extraction on the environment, and global warming, Greenland banned all new exploration. The moratorium did not affect the existing licenses and one was acquired in July 2024 British to the company "80mile", which, in partnership with a company from the USA, is planning research in eastern Greenland in the second half of 2026. If they find oil by 2036, perform the necessary analyzes of the impact on the environment and lives, in accordance with the existing regulation, they will automatically receive the right to extraction and production. Greenland has the right of veto if it considers that the socio-economic conditions are not met.
MINERALS RARE, AND THE LESS RARE ONES
According to the Pulitzer Center, although Greenland is rich in the rare elements and minerals needed to develop batteries and high-tech industries, due to the 2021 law and opposition from local residents, as well as climate conditions, there are not many open-pit mines. The BBC reports that only nine companies hold licenses for commercial mining, and only two mines are currently active. The remoteness, mountainous terrain and cold climate, as well as a lack of infrastructure, labor and burdensome bureaucracy and strict environmental regulations, make mining in Greenland challenging and expensive.
However, Greenland is extremely attractive because of its vast and untapped resources. Western countries are trying to reduce dependence on Kine, which controls the supply of elements whose properties enable technologies to be smaller, faster and stronger. They are used for the production of smartphones, electric vehicles and defense systems and the like. They are actually not so rare as they are difficult to exploit economically, because they are found only in compounds and not as pure metals, so it is difficult to isolate and purify them.
Finally, it is estimated that ice contains between 10 and 20 percent of the world's drinking water reserves. In the fight for resources, and the projected climate changes and their consequences, a significant advantage is access to fresh, extremely clean drinking water.
If the US does take over Greenland, the moratorium will be lifted despite evidence that drilling and mining in the Arctic is currently commercially unviable due to high costs. However, the US could use taxpayer-funded funds or subsidies to guarantee private investment in Greenland's energy sector, similar to proposed business models for Venezuelan oil that, admittedly, have not attracted much interest from oil companies. In any case, the consequences for Greenland's nature will be incalculable, and the question remains whether and how the citizens of the island will benefit in any way, or whether the U.S. to pick up what he wants and move on.
THE BIGGEST SCAM OF ALL TIME
By the way, in his speech during the UN General Assembly in September 2025, Trump said about climate change (again) that they are "the biggest fraud ever committed in the world", a fraud that was devised by "stupid people who gamble with the wealth of their countries and do not give those same countries a chance to succeed." However, his claims to Greenland and already demonstrated megalomania in their core seem to be counting on the effects of climate change: global warming is already leading to accelerated melting of the ice. Reports from 2023 indicate that Greenland's ice cores are warming, and average temperatures are the highest in 1000 years. Already today, the melting of the ice enables easier navigation of ships on the northern route during most of the year, which has commercial and security significance.
Apart from the result of sea level rise, mass hunger and migration, struggle for resources and the like, it will enable easier mining and drilling of melting permafrost and access to oil, metals and minerals. Admittedly, the real effects of the thaw will be visible only in fifty years, but if Trump succeeds in his plan, perhaps the Americans who survive until then will to make from mud. Everything indicates that this is his goal.
