"Greenland is essential for America's national security. The new domain of international competition is going to be polar competition. That is where more and more resources are being spent by our nation's adversaries and rivals. The ability to control movement, navigation back lanes of travel in the polar and arctic regions. Greenland is 25% larger than Alaska. Greenland is the size of one-fourth the continental United States."
"With respect to Denmark, Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy, and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland. They cannot control the territory of Greenland. Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory, improve territory, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on every single one of these tests."
A new principle asserts that nation-states are not entitled to territory unless they can defend, improve, and inhabit it. The principle is applied to Greenland, arguing that Denmark lacks the economic and military capacity to control the island. Greenland is characterized as strategically essential for national security amid rising polar competition and rival resource investments. The United States already maintains a military base on the island, and U.S. interest in ownership has been expressed. Danish and Greenlandic officials have rejected any sale, and NATO partners have conducted exercises under Denmark’s Operation Arctic Endurance.
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