Trumpโs turn toward Greenland is not a โsurprise.โ On the contrary, it is a direct manifestation of the re-emergence of imperial reflexes in the 21st century. As the global system is once again reorganizing around rigid hierarchies among great powers, geography has returned to the very center of politics. Greenland has thus become a pivotal arena in this structural transformation. For this reason, reducing the Greenland question merely to subsoil resources or to geographical positioning would be both incomplete and misleading. What is at stake is a much deeper process of systemic reconfiguration. The power struggle intensifying in the Arctic is not simply about energy and mineral competition. It represents the spatial projection of the question of who will govern the global order. The Arctic is no longer a โwhite space,โ but the new contact zone of global empires. Within the triangular rivalry among the United States, Russia and China, Greenland is not just an island. It has become a strategic lock linking the North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean.
From Washingtonโs perspective, it functions as a forward outpost capable of simultaneously constraining Russiaโs Northern Fleet, Chinaโs Polar Silk Road and
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