Hello and welcome to another episode of Real Politics.

I am your host, Firas Madaad.

And today we're going to be talking about Greenland,

and we're going to try to understand why Trump wants it and what is actually going on.

To do that, we have to think a little bit about maritime strategy and the possibility of a war with Trina.

And then when you start to get these things, you'll sort of see how different bits and pieces of the Trump strategy are falling into place,

from the pressure on South Africa to the bailout of Argentina, the capture of Venezuela, and obviously Greenland.

If you want to think about the United States today, what's going on now is, as you all know, a massive competition with China.

And the United States is on one side of the Pacific Ocean and China is on the opposite

side of the world and yet they are in the middle of a deadly competition for world dominance. Previously,

the most industrialized power would be the one that is most likely to win.

And right now, that's China.

But if you add the United States and her allies, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea,

they can balance against China industrially.

And so the United States has to fight the Chinese as part of a coalition. The problem is that this coalition is deeply divided, chaotic,

and so the Americans are in this position where they have to assert their own dominance over their empire, while also working to check

the Chinese threat. So in a way, they're engaged in a two-front conflict. One side of it is against

China directly. The other side is against the United States' reticent allies that don't necessarily want to commit in the same way,

but which the United States needs for it to have the right level of industrial capacity

to be able to compete with the Chinese. So that's the framing of it.

Then you have to look at American geopolitics and the geopolitics of the United States.

Now, the regions of the United States are the Pacific Coast, the Rocky Mountains,

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