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Why America may not have won World War II without its secret weapon: Greenland

A month after the Nazis seized Denmark, five American Coast Guard cutters set sail for Greenland.

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Fortune

Thomas Robertson

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...

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The Conversation

Thomas Robertson