We could just wait a few more years for all the Greenland ice to melt and then mine much easier in the tropical warmth amongst the greenland palmtrees./s
We have a very powerful PAVE PAWS radar instillation at Thule Air Base.
“...has some of the world’s biggest deposits of rare earth elements, strategically important metals in which China has a near monopoly...”
China’s “near monopoly” is at least partially our own fault.
The United States has also has deposits of these minerals but the federal government has made the regulatory process too stringent and costly for them to be developed.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Stopped there- no need to read farther.