On a Mercator map it’s bigger than the USA. I don’t think he’s able to understand what a 3km ice sheet means for mineral extraction, and he’s lived inside a solid gold echo chamber his whole life so I don’t think he knows what polar climates are able to support in terms of agriculture or general habitability. I think he’s looking at maps and seeing a really big piece of land basically next door and he wants to be immortalized

The previous marriage ended because her husband died btw