The president of the United States, Donald Trump, he has between his eyebrows . Although the president had already publicly expressed that intention since his return to the White House, the insistence of his messages regarding the island of Danish sovereignty has multiplied since the US military intervention in Venezuela.
The White House does not shy away from talking about its ambitions in Greenland and last week they even acknowledged that He is among the “options” that the Trump Administration is considering to dominate the island.
However, since have wanted to put themselves in another possible scenario: that of a potential negotiation between the US and Denmark to allocate ownership of Greenland.
In that sense, David Barker, real estate developer and former New York Federal Reserve economisthas indicated to the aforementioned media How much would it cost to buy Greenland? if it were for sale.
The expert has made an approximate calculation and has come to the conclusion that acquiring Greenland could be worth between 12,500 and 77,000 million dollars, that is, between 10,700 and 66,000 million euros.
Greenland’s mineral wealth
Although Trump has assured that he wants to take over Greenland to strengthen US national defense, the reality is that One of the great attractions that the island has is its wealth of minerals.
Specifically, the island has copper and lithiumminerals that are necessary for the manufacture of critical technologies such as batteries and electric vehicles and that are also very important in the defense sector.
Nevertheless, director del Danish Mineral Intelligence Centre (D-MIC)has also made it clear that The minerals that Greenland has must be valued appropriately.
“It seems that Greenland can solve the world’s problems, but Its minerals are also found in other places. The problem is rather that world production is concentrated in certain countries, such as China. And a mine with rare metals in Greenland does not solve this problem if the mineral is sent to China,” said Keiding.
