"The impunity with which occupation, systemic violence and genocide are normalised in the world today is staggering. When Donald Trump repeated
his 2019 call to “buy Greenland,” he wasn’t just reviving imperialistic fantasies – he was rebranding exploitation as the next great adventure
of conquest. Instead, it is the impetus of impunity that gets
normalised.

On January 24, the US president had a “fiery call” with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen as reported by Financial Times. A critical
NATO ally, Denmark is “utterly freaked out” despite Frederiksen’s offer “to increase Greenland-US cooperation on military bases and natural
resource exploitation” to blunt the aggressive take over of the arctic island.

Greenland, a land of high silence in the Arctic, where the air is
crystalline and time seems to congeal in the long night, holds a wealth
the world has only just begun to covet. Its vast, ice-choked expanse,
glacial yet breathing with hidden heat beneath its frosty mantle, is not
merely a frozen monolith but a region of deep historical and
geopolitical significance. If Joseph Conrad chronicled the moral ruin of colonialism in the tropical mists of Africa’s dark heart, then surely
the Arctic fog swirling above Greenland is the veil of a new reckoning,
steeped in the historical parallels of the Congo’s exploitation.

In this tale of imperialistic desire and colonial dominion, Greenland
emerges as the Congo of the 21st century, not for rubber or ivory but
for cobalt, rare earth elements, and lithium. These elements, the veins
of modernity’s unrelenting appetite for the digital and green
revolutions, carry immense geopolitical implications. The skeletons of
colonial ambition stir beneath the permafrost, drawing not only venture capitalists but also nation-states that, like King Leopold II in his
lust for the Congo, see not land but the shimmering mirage of endless
profit. The unfolding interest in Greenland’s mineral wealth is a story
that is both compelling and deeply concerning."

https://thewire.in/world/greenland-is-the-new-congo-of-the-21st-century

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