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Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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He's looking at Greenland supposedly because of their rare earth minerals.
Australia has almost 4x the rare earth minerals of Greenland, and also has the mining infrastructure already in place.
It's best we keep our heads down.
the minerals are just the flimsy justification.
the reality is that trump is trying to posture the united states for an anticipated climate change degraded world where a huge majority of commerce and shipping goes through the arctic instead of polynesia or the suez canal.
denmark does not have the capacity to create and maintain a standing navy large enough to counter china's in the waters around greenland; so the US president in 50-ish years time will force the issue because trump already started it.
We're also not a strategic point between the US and Russia, so that's another key point why the orange turd is not interested