Trump Dreams of Minerals — in Ukraine and Greenland

From Ukraine to Greenland, Are Trump’s Geopolitical Ambitions Driven by Mining?

When it comes to critical minerals, Trump wants to keep the US in, China out and everyone else down.

Trump Dreams of Minerals — in Ukraine and Greenland

The clean energy transition that the Biden administration touted as the focus of its industrial policy required large amounts of mineral inputs. Batteries for electric vehicles depend on lithium, solar panels contain gallium and molybdenum, and powerful magnets in wind turbines can’t be built without rare earth elements. US President Joe Biden’s landmark legislation, such as the 2022 Inflation Adjustment Act, effectively resurrected industrial p…

Tanel Jan Palgi: the new Yalta – is Ukraine the first domino?

As the Arctic melts and minerals beckon, will the West let history repeat itself – again? The brief handshake between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the funeral of Pope Francis may go down in history as more than a polite encounter. Days later, a US–Ukraine minerals deal was quietly signed. A coincidence? Hardly. What’s at stake now isn’t just Ukraine – it’s the future of Canada, Greenland and the global balance of power. At the Vatican,…