Interesting fact about the US having Greenland

as part of the US. There is an international game being played for who may extract resouces from the artic. The is a subterranian mountain ridge under the Artic, pretty much bisects the region. Russia, Canada, Denmark (via Greenland) and I think one more country are have bid with an international agency to include this mountain range as part of their "continental shelf". Having this mountain range in you continental shelf gives you vast rights to fishing and minerals - also rights to lay cable and pipelines and more. If the US could become the legal government responsible for Greenland, our non existant case (Alaska is too far away) would be much stronger. We're building a modern fleet of ice breakers to be more active in the region - but if Russia gains control - we won't have any rights other than passage through international waters. Trump is playing the long game. If in 50, 100 or 200 years, the ice is the Artic is less, then mineral and other rights could be a game changer in national wealth and power. I'm not a climate change alarmest - but global temperatures change for a lot of reasons - and it's better to have these rights vs your sworn enemy having them.