re: NYT: We can expand Greenland forces right now.

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But there is a threat of them pulling the rug out from under us like Diego Garcia. Why should we spend money and manpower protecting it when the country who supposedly controls it does nothing of the sort?

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Sounds like everyone is getting what they want already.

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Rare earths aren't rare. They're byproducts of other mining operations. Their rarity is in that they're very energy intensive and environmentally toxic to refine. That's why we get them from China. It isn't that we don't have them in the ground ourselves.

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Getting them ourselves from a virtually uninhabited territory we own doesn't make more sense than letting a communist country and political enemy control the worldwide production of critical minerals?

I feel like people don't understand that sovereignty is only gained through self-reliance. If a foreign power can sink your country on a whim due to your reliance on them, you are not a sovereign nation. You are a vassal.

We're the most powerful country the world has ever seen, but people want us to play second fiddle to communists for reasons I can't fathom.

Trump equates allies as akin to vassals. He asks not for cooperation per se, but for capitulation.

No. He is not a master negotiator. He is a master promoter though. His deals tend to be not so good for others . Hell before government, his deals tended to not be so good for himself other than Trump Tower back in the late 70s

Do the men working at that remote military base in Greenland have any female companionship?

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Rare earths aren't rare.

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True

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Their rarity is in that they're very energy intensive and environmentally toxic to refine.

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Also True

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That's why we get them from China.

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Kind of.

They also have deposits “large quantities lumped together), which is not something that we have outside of one location at Mountain Pass (California).

Australia has a large spot that is promising, IF their government doesn’t restrict them.

Myanmar too (they lack the tech and infrastructure though).

As you can see, there are a lot of moving parts to this.

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Three words.

Rare.
Earth.
Minerals.

Those three words will fund our military presence in Greenland and also cut nice royalty checks to the Greenlanders and accepting our presence. It's a win-win.

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Two words:

Robert Lauder

The reasons it's better if we just own it is because we won't have to worry about another country making deals with our adversaries. Things are changing. We are no longer in the "Cold War". Maybe a different one, but not the one Reagan fought.

Two reasons. Resources and to prevent jimmy carter 2.0 from giving away our bases there.

How is the protection of America not America first? From where do you retards come?