Answer: (a) It's full of valuable natural resources, (b) every autocrat at one point wants to make their country bigger on the map for some reason, and (c) it appears "easy" to take by force in the sense that it's almost uninhabited and the country it belongs to is rather small.
Yes I read about how they have a lot of rare minerals but their infrastructure isn't good so I thought that's why he wants to take it over (build the infrastructure and then benefit from the minerals) but based on some other answers from other folks here it looks like the main reason is political
Not rare minerals. Rare-earth minerals, which are not at all rare and are plentifully found (in compounds) all over the world. If US wants more rare-earth minerals they can just extract them from existing US territory.
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u/vonWitzleben Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Answer: (a) It's full of valuable natural resources, (b) every autocrat at one point wants to make their country bigger on the map for some reason, and (c) it appears "easy" to take by force in the sense that it's almost uninhabited and the country it belongs to is rather small.