Sands: "We have Venezuela, we're going to have Iran. Now to have Greenland means that we'll be able to power the world for many hundreds of years with the energy that has been discovered." This is just manifest destiny cosplay dressed up as energy policy. The Trump administration is openly announcing plans to seize resource-rich countries and claiming it's about powering civilization. Meanwhile reality: Greenland is part of Denmark, Venezuela and Iran are sovereign nations, and this entire framing treats geopolitics like a real estate acquisition.