The article in the OP was the first article in the newsletter and now that I'm looking at the rest of it, there's also an article about the Greenland saga.
“It’s been incredibly nice to meet people, and people were very happy to meet with us. Dad will have to come here.” So said Donald Trump Jr. to the press when the family jet made a four-hour visit to Greenland last month.
The demands of United States President Trump at the outset of his second term in office have put the world’s largest island into direct conflict with the world’s most powerful state. The Trump administration’s desire to make Greenland part of the US has caused considerable consternation among the Indigenous population of just 57,000 people—though this isn’t the first time that America has made a bid for ownership of this gargantuan Arctic landmass.
The Trump administration’s ambitions put the White House in direct conflict with both Greenland and Denmark, a development that may have been foreseeable. As Hans W. Weigert wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1944,
the consciousness that the far north is an area of great strategic importance to the United States is no longer limited to the small group of men… […] It is no longer necessary to deplore the lack of a national awareness of the north, but rather to warn against over-enthusiastic generalizations which threaten to cloud realities. The strategy of this war has accelerated the pace of Arctic progress, but there are certain barriers raised by nature against the development of this area; and political realities set limits to the possibilities of an American march north.
https://daily.jstor.org/greenland-polar-politics/?utm_term=Greenland%3A%20Polar%20Politics&utm_campaign=jstordaily_02132025&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email
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