“The U.S. approach toward Greenland is not constructive. There are ways to bolster co-operation and partnership without threats,” Bayoumi told CBC News.

To counter Russia and China, he says the administration should instead be working with Canada, Greenland and Denmark to build an allied approach to Arctic security and defence, including by scaling up U.S. presence and economic activity in the region.

One day the Canadian political braintrust will get a clue. Here is a paint by numbers support for those still struggling.

1. US says it wants Greenland and Canada among others to deter geopolitical expansionism by Russia and China. It’s a matter of national security.

2. NATO says you already have full access and collaboration on all those fronts. Why would you also need to attack NATO members sovereignty? This makes ZERO sense.

3. Here is the hard part, so pay close attention - THE US IS LYING. This is naked American empirialism.

The rules based order born out of WWII is dead. Ecological overshoot, of which climate change is only one part of, puts human civilization on a collision course with unsustainability. Russia, China and America know this.

If you want to understand the next 200 years of geopolitics, play a late era game of Sid Meier’s Civilization when growth is done and the game isn’t won yet and time is running out where you have a few large powerful countries and a smattering of smaller ones. It’s a mad dash by the major powers to conquer lesser powers for a quick boost in points before time is up.

Drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. Shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out.