Is Greenland really next in line?

Greenland is roughly nine times bigger than the UK but 80 per cent of it is covered in ice. But Donald Trump wants all of it. He wants to replace Denmark's centuries' old "ownership" of Greenland and put the Stars and Stripes flag on it. After the military spectacular in Caracas at the weekend, anything is possible, and Greenland is right to feel worried. Trump wants the island, as he says, for US national security reasons. It is perched on the Arctic Circle, strategically placed on the globe to give the US a perfect view of what potential enemies, China and Rusxsia, might be up to. The thing is, the US already has a huge base in the northwest of Greenland at a place called Pituffik, formerly Thule. It's an early warning station for missile attacks. The US has jurusdictional rights at the base. But Trump wants more. He wants to annexe Greenland so that he can put in a lot more military hardware - presumably anti-ship missiles. Plus the island has huge reserves of rare earth minerals which he needs to mine for America's weapons technologies. Right now, China dominates in the rare earth minerals world. So it makes sense to start mining the largely untapped minerals buried under Greenland. There are also believed to be vast untapped oil deposits. But the Greenland government hasn't made a move to mine for oil or for the rare minerals for environmental reasons. Trump pooh poohs that sort of ideological thinking. So can he just send a naval armada to Greenland and grab it without doing untold damage to the Nato alliance? Greenland, being kind of attached to Denmark, is covered by Nato's Article 5 protection guarantees. So, Nato fights Nato's leader, the United States of America? Well, of course not but you see the problem. BUY AGENT REDRUTH, MY NEW SPY THRILLER. CHECK AMAZON.