• ATDA@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I mean I can’t speak for other nations but who’s looking in from the outside and thinking, “yeah mate Id like a piece of that!” past Russia?

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      2 months ago

      90% of the landmass is under ice, so people want the water, and they’re getting chubs thinking there might be deposits of rare earth minerals as there are in the Northern Territories of Canada.

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        2 months ago

        Isn’t this also mostly about shipping routed which are expected to open up more and more due to climate change?

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There is also public anger about a documentary by Danish broadcaster DR that claimed Denmark earned the equivalent of up to 400bn Danish kroner (£45bn) from a Greenlandic cryolite mine between 1854 and 1987.

    Yeah, the US doesn’t want to “freedomize” Greenland. We want to exploit it.

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    2 months ago

    They’re gonna put their foot on the scales for this vote just like they did in the US presidential election.