Mineral extraction from Greenland isn't a short term payoff, it's a long term multi decadal slog, once climate changes hits harder, ice retreats, seasons lengthen, geophysical surveys drape the landscape, surface geochem samples, drilling tests, and infill drilling proves prospects then maybe new grounds can raise capital to open mines and processing.<p>In the more immediate short term (of a US Presidental term):<p><i>Trump looks to The Democratic Republic of the Congo for potential deal on rare earth minerals</i><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/trump-drc-cobalt-mining-rare-earth-minerals-china/105063278" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/trump-drc-cobalt-mini...</a><p>The DRC are rich mineral grounds and ground zero for an unspoken proxy mineral battle during the Cold War when the US sourced uranium for the bulk of its post WWII weapons programme from the region.<p>Now it's primed for another rare earth proxy battle between the US and the already established Chinese foofhold there.
From the article:<p>> It shocked him to realize that he now perceives the United States as a greater threat than Iran.<p>Weird how Europeans / Canadians / extremist Americans don’t seem to reflect on these types of sentiments, of preferring Iran and China over the US, and realize that maybe, just maybe - they are not thinking clearly. These are literally authoritarian dictatorships, while the US is a democracy that supports things like free speech and freedom of religion. These are values that are more strongly supported in America than anywhere else, and are the same types of values that the EU and Canada <i>should</i> be supporting.
Greenlanders could be offered 10 million dollars each, the protectorate of the US and laws does not sound so bad to me, I would take it, currently living in a dystopian socialist Labour nightmare, the UK (could be worse, we could still be in the EU).