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A soldier takes part in German naval exercises off the coast of Norway in 2025. Hannibal Hanschke / EPA

Why Europe wants to boost its Arctic presence

EU leaders are scrambling to increase the bloc’s presence in the Arctic.
Greenland’s cryolite mine, essential for U.S. airplane production, was below sea level and vulnerable to Nazi sabotage. Reginald Wilcox, ca. 1941. Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College

In World War II’s dog‑eat‑dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order

Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.

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