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With respect to Canada, how much effort does anyone believe they expend to patrol the Arctic?
That's no relevant Dope. As long as it's with a friendly country we're fine. So Australia, Canada, and Greenland are just fine. You want to leap to WW3 and your idea seems to be that the deposits and processing need to be in the heartland of America surrounded by missiles.
No.
We just need the deposits and processing to be in friendly areas that won't go along with China - allies. Which leads us to the benefit of alliances... trade alliances and defense alliances - both of which Trump has shown he doesn't understand.
Now friendly areas like Taiwan that China has expressly and historically said are theirs and rattles its sabers over periodically are different.
