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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grab

a man in a green jacket stands on a snowy landscape
JD Vance tours the US military's Pituffik space base in Greenland on 28 March. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Some of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign donors and investors, who collectively have hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties to the US president, are positioned to potentially profit from any American takeover of Greenland, raising even more ethical questions around Trump’s controversial pursuit of the Arctic territory.

The administration is in part aiming to secure rare minerals that are essential for the US tech industry and national security, and to potentially reopen oil and gas exploration: “This is about critical minerals, this is about natural resources,” Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, recently said.

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