The Caribbean and the Arctic seem to have little in common. The same cannot be said of Venezuela and Greenland, which, with the turn of the new year, have found themselves on the same geopolitical menu – based on a contemporary version of the Monroe Doctrine, the declaration by President James Monroe warning European powers against further colonisation or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
It declared the Americas closed to future colonisation, asserted the US sphere of influence, and pledged non-interference in European affairs.
There has been much speculation, and it continues to grow, regarding the real motivations behind the US intervention in Caracas and the increasing ambitions toward the island of ice. Some analystshave highlighted economic motives, traceable to the rich deposits of oil and rare earth elements present in both the Venezuelan and Greenlandic subsoil.
Others have emphasised the geopolitical angle, citing, on one hand, deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s close ties with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, and on the other, the Sino-Russian military and commercial penetration of the Arctic. Still others have not ruled out psychoanalytical motivations, pointing to the US President’s will to power.
Whatever the ultimate reasons, and whatever fate awaits Caracas and Nuuk – now rightly in the spotlight – the most profound discontinuity of the new...
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