The debate over Greenland cannot be understood in isolation. When the United States frames Greenland as a “national security priority”, it draws on a familiar playbook, one that Europe has seen repeteadly in Latin America, and most clearly in Venezuela. For decades, Venezuela has been treated less as a sovereign country than as a repository of resources. Its oil reserves, among the largest in the world, have been used to justify sanctions, regime-change operations, covert destabilisation and repeated violations of … Continue reading From Caracas to Nuuk: the same resource logic, a different latitude