It's mostly art of the deal talk. US companies have essentially all the lithium contracts there. As well as a lot of other things we need for microchips, including silver silver silver. He wants to be sure that Denmark doesn't gouge. He probably wants to make a special arrangement so they don't take as much. That would be a way to get them to think twice. We probably would go directly to the people and offer them independence if the Danes don't play ball, though. It is rather important to make this deal because it would keep us out of a lot of the resource conflicts with China in other parts of the world. Since the people there like us, and it's proximal, it really does make a lot of sense. Maybe an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine.

Panama is no big deal. China is all about a new canal in Nicaragua, they'll back off the Panama Canal, that will go off without a hitch, imo. The question is how does our Govt feel about China all up in Nicaragua? I think we are going to be getting used to a Trump pronunciation of 'Nicaragua' soon.