Everyone is dead wrong about Greenland. The US’s attempt to acquire the island nation has nothing to do with its strategic location between the US and Russia. That’s convenient cover for the media, but it misses the real story entirely.
The United States wants Greenland for the same reason it has taken equity stakes in 11 different companies over the last year. This move perfectly aligns with every macroeconomic trend I’m tracking and confirms my investment thesis for 2026. This is a rare earth metals stock play hiding in plain sight.
What comes next isn’t geopolitical theater — it’s a mineral independence move that’s about to reshape global supply chains.
Why My 2026 Portfolio Is Already Up 16.82%
Three months ago, I outlined my complete investment portfolio for 2026. I gave you the names, tickers, and exact percentages of every holding.
The results speak for themselves. Over the last 90 days, my account is up 16.82%. The S&P 500? A measly 1.8%.
That’s not luck. That’s concentrated focus on two critical areas: energy and metals.
Gold and silver are surging, yes. But copper, steel, aluminum, and rare earth metals are the real story. These continue to be the leading areas of the market, and the Greenland situation reinforces exactly why.
My industry strength indicator — something I had coded for TradingView that we give to all Black Ops members — shows something I’ve never seen before. 90% of the leading groups in the stock market represent hard assets, primarily metals and energy.
Healthcare, tech, banks, consumer discretionary? Nowhere to be found.
The 48-Hour Tariff Play That Revealed Everything
Last week, Trump threatened 10% tariffs on the entire continent of Europe until the US got Greenland.
The taco trade played out in record time. Trump ruled out military action and suspended European tariffs in less than 48 hours after reaching an agreement with NATO’s Secretary General.
The deal gave the administration what it really wants: control of 21st century technology supply chains and American dominance in critical metals.
How do you think he got a deal in 48 hours if other global superpowers didn’t realize what was really at stake?
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Why the Military Strategy Argument Is Pure Theater
Turn on your TV and you’ll see the same image repeated endlessly. The GIUK gap — Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom — the naval choke point in the North Atlantic.
The public argument goes like this: Ice caps are melting. New shipping lanes are opening up. Russia and China are positioning themselves to control these routes. We need a permanent military presence on Greenland to maintain control.
That’s just optics.
As usual, national security is being used to disguise the real agenda. The real agenda is securing critical minerals for America. And this is the most relevant thing to your portfolio.
The Rare Earth Reality Most Investors Miss
Rare earth minerals are indispensable for today’s technology:
– Batteries for electric vehicles – Guidance systems in missiles – Magnets in wind turbines – Chips that process AI infrastructure
The US is betting hundreds of billions on AI. It’s crucial to control the infrastructure that bet is being made on.
But here’s what the media gets wrong. They say “Greenland has minerals” and leave it there. The United States already has minerals. We have rare earth deposits in California, Texas, and Wyoming. Canada and Australia have deposits too.
We don’t need to buy an island to find rocks.
So why is the White House risking a trade war for this specific territory?
The Chemical Variable That Changes Everything
Most rare earth deposits worldwide are mixed with thorium, a radioactive byproduct. This is true for US and Chinese deposits.
In the US, thorium is a liability. You can’t sell it, so you pay millions to treat it as nuclear waste. It creates a radioactivity tax that kills profit margins. This is exactly why we shut down our biggest plants decades ago.
China dominates 90% of global processing — not just because they have the mines, but because they were willing to absorb the environmental costs Western nations refused to pay.
For decades, the West has outsourced rare earth processing to China to keep costs low and environmental regulations easy. The result? China controls the supply chain for the most crucial raw material of the 21st century.
Enter Greenland.
The Geological Anomaly That Flips the Economics
Greenland is home to the Kvanefjeld deposit, a geological anomaly that changes the math completely.
It doesn’t just hold rare earths. It holds massive concentrations of uranium oxides.
This flips the entire economic equation. Unlike thorium, uranium oxide is highly valuable — primarily uranium 235 and 238. Instead of the byproduct being waste you pay to hide, it becomes fuel you can sell.
By acquiring rights to these deposits, the US could sell the uranium byproduct to the nuclear industry and subsidize the cost of rare earth processing. It becomes a negative cost structure, allowing the West to finally undercut China’s prices without state subsidies.
By acquiring Greenland, the United States wouldn’t just be buying land. It would be buying mineral independence for the next century of high-tech manufacturing, cutting China out of the loop.
Those tariff threats weren’t about territory. They were strategic leverage to overturn local bans on uranium mining and unlock deposits where the waste pays the bills.
How Uncle Sam Is Buying Mineral Independence
This move tells us everything we need to know about today’s investment landscape. The hottest commodities are no longer chips and data centers — because none of these can be built without the raw materials.
The government has taken stakes in 11 companies in just the last year. They all have something in common: strategic plays to gain access to rare earths and critical minerals.
Look at what Uncle Sam has bought:
- MP Materials – rare earths
- Intel – semiconductors
- Lithium Americas – EV and battery materials
- Trilogy Metals – more rare earths
- Westinghouse – nuclear reactors
- Vulcan Elements – rare earth magnets
- REElement Technologies – rare earth processor –
- Atlantic Alumina – produces gallium for chip manufacturing
- Korea Zinc – critical mineral refinery building a Tennessee facility
- Xite – advanced semiconductor manufacturing
- US Rare Earth (USA) – announced this week, 10% government stake
Is this nationalization? Are we shifting toward state-owned enterprise? That’s above my pay grade.
What I do know is this: when governments are fighting over this stuff and billionaires start rushing in, you’d be wise to pay attention.
The Copper Shortage Nobody's Talking About
Metals and energy are the plays for 2026. Copper is facing a shortage the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Billionaire mining titan Robert Friedland says we need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years as we have in the last 10,000 years just to meet demand.
Copper currently sells for $6 a pound. Don’t be surprised if it goes to $60.
Why Nuclear Is the New Black
Tech giants are turning to nuclear to meet the insatiable power demands of AI data centers:
- Microsoft is reopening Three Mile Island and securing 100% of its power
- Amazon’s new Pennsylvania data center connects directly to Talen Energy Corp’s nuclear plant on the Susquehanna River
The nuclear sector is already up 28% year-to-date. It’s still January.
My Energy and Metal Allocations You Can Copy
The picture could not be clearer. Buy metals, buy energy, and let supply constraints work to your advantage.
Here are my energy and metal allocations if you want to copy them. These are all ETFs — exchange-traded funds that hold a basket of stocks in a given sector. The idea is concentrated exposure in the right areas without going YOLO on a single stock:
Energy Allocations:
- XLE (Energy Select Sector SPDR) – 8%
- VDE (Vanguard Energy ETF) – 5%
- URA (Global X Uranium ETF) – 7%
Metal Allocations:
- GLD (SPDR Gold Trust) – 12%
- SLV (iShares Silver Trust) – 6%
- COPX (Global X Copper Miners ETF) – 9% –
- REMX (VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF) – 8%
- Total hard asset allocation: 55% of portfolio.
This isn’t speculation. It’s pattern recognition.
Final Thoughts: The Mineral Independence Revolution
When the US government starts taking equity stakes in mining companies and threatens trade wars over Arctic islands, that’s not foreign policy — that’s industrial policy.
The Greenland play reveals the administration’s true priority: breaking China’s stranglehold on critical mineral supply chains. This isn’t about military bases or shipping lanes.
It’s about securing the raw materials that will power the next century of American technology dominance.
The smart money is already positioning. The government is showing you exactly where capital is flowing. The only question is whether you’re paying attention.
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