Last month the American, Danish, and Greenlandic governments announced a new approach to their partnership in the Arctic. They signed an agreement that acknowledged the “security challenges in the Arctic and the High North posed by adversaries’ increased military and growing strategic interest in the region.” It effectively named Russia, without naming Russia – America’s unrivaled Arctic adversary. The Greenland deal should be seen as a strategic signal: the US will treat the Arctic as part of the Western Hemisphere and thus part of the US’s legitimate security buffer. Meanwhile, Russia seeks to maintain its “sphere of influence” over miles of ocean covered in sea ice, a promising zone for future resource extraction.
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United States, Denmark, and Greenland Formalize Arctic Security Partnership
The US, Denmark, and Greenland have entered a new security agreement to address shifting geopolitical dynamics and military activity in the High North.
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