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There's no downside for the left about trump invading greenland or someshit

The downside from an internationalist left perspective would be the USA having more direct control over Arctic territory and resource claims, along with more direct control over current and future shipping lanes. China has invested a lot into mines in Greenland for example. Those investments would be gone in a more US controlled or aligned Greenland.

The real story is not Trump threatening to annex Greenland, that's just the public facing Trump absurdity. The real story is stuff like this:

US lobbied Greenland rare earths developer Tanbreez not to sell to China, Reuters, January 9 2025

Greg Barnes, CEO of privately held Tanbreez Mining, said U.S. officials who visited the project in southern Greenland twice last year had repeatedly shared a message with the cash-strapped company: do not sell the large deposit to a Beijing-linked buyer.

Barnes ultimately sold Tanbreez to New York-based Critical Metals (CRML.O), as part of a complex deal that will be complete later this year. Tanbreez aims to mine 500,000 metric tons annually of the crimson rare earths-containing mineral eudialyte as soon as 2026.

"There was a lot of pressure not to sell to China," Tony Sage, CEO of Critical Metals, told Reuters. Barnes accepted payment of $5 million cash and $211 million in Critical Metals stock for Tanbreez, far less than Chinese firms offered, Sage said.

Barnes said offers from Chinese and other parties were not relevant because they had not clearly outlined how they could pay.

Neither executive disclosed which officials they met with or identified the Chinese companies that made offers.

Moving onto the next section

Critical Metals applied for funding to develop a rare earths processing facility from the U.S. Department of Defense last year, but the review process has stalled ahead of Trump taking office on Jan. 20. Sage said he expects talks to resume after Trump's inauguration and that Trump's transition team has already contacted him.

"We're already in discussions with the U.S. to sell (rare earths) to the U.S. and build the processing plant in the U.S.," he said.

Critical Metals' third-largest investor is brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald (CNTOR.UL), led by Howard Lutnick, who Trump nominated to run the U.S. Commerce Department. Sage said he has never met or talked to Lutnick, but acknowledged Cantor's investment is a positive for his company.

The Tanbreez deposit is about 30% heavy rare earths, which are used widely in defense applications. The site also contains gallium, which China imposed export restrictions on last year.

Critical Metals has held supply talks with defense contractor Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), and has upcoming talks with RTX (RTX.N), and Boeing (BA.N), Sage said.

This is the real story. The threats to invade apply pressure in the public sphere and internationally and act as the stick, the buying up of mining deposits and access is the end result of that pressure, and a nice carrot for the executives.

Yeah, it's not like Denmark has an inherent right to Greenland. The only good scenario would be if the natives got it back, but that's not on the table anyway.

If this actually goes through, it will be blindingly obvious that EU is a satrapy, nothing more.

Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?