Greenland and Iceland are of strategical importance to the US unrelated to the climate change, look up Monroe Doctrine
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I don't buy this at all. They've been European holdings since before that doctrine was established and right through it. The cartoons I've seen of Uncle Sam drawing a line along the ocean seem to exclude them and start off the east coast of the US, encircle the Caribbean and encircle South America.
Geographically many consider them part of Europe, certainly not part of North America in most maps.
Also US never really cared that much about Monroe Doctrine either. The British came and beat up on the Argentineans over the Falklands. US easily could have thrown up some ships in their way and said "fuck off" or otherwise attempted to dissuade them but didn't care to. It's never been an ironclad rule or commitment.
And as Europe has been in vassalage to the US since WW2 (well all the empire holding parts, certain parts only became vassals after the USSR was destroyed) it shouldn't really matter.
It's more the US just moving in on its vassals colonial holdings because of strategic importance and the fact they want to manage a choke-point like that directly with all the attendant power over the land and building whatever bases they want, bulldozing what they want, etc to meet whatever enlarged capabilities are desired and to fortify these places as necessary.
I think the U.S. allowed the Falklands conflict because Britain is one of the U.S.'s best allies and they share the same interests.