Robert D. Kaplan famously treated geography as „the most powerful, yet most underestimated factor in foreign policy.” The Mercator projection does not help us understand Greenland’s geopolitical significance, as it inflates the island to the size of a continent; in reality, its territory corresponds roughly to the surface area of Mexico. Why, then, is Greenland so coveted by Donald Trump? Approximately 80% of Greenland is covered by ice. In contrast, its eastern neighbor, Iceland, is covered by

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