️🇺🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰U.S. Secretary of State Rubio on the strategic importance of Greenland.

"It has a more important role today than ever before for two reasons.

Number one is because the Arctic has now become an area of incredible competition. Many countries, including non-Arctic countries that call themselves near Arctic countries like China, operate there every day and try to control the sea lanes, important for global shipping and trade.

But the second is because of space warfare and because of missile defense. To build the kind of missile defense that this country needs to defend itself, Greenland is incredibly important for all of North America."