by bloomgberg
– Why would Trump want to buy Greenland?
As Trump surely knows, other US leaders have made their mark in history for such grand ideas, with Andrew Johnson remembered as the president who oversaw the acquisition of Alaska from Russia in 1867.
When Trump suggested a potential Greenland purchase back in 2019, he presented it as “a large real estate deal” that could ease Denmark’s state finances.
His argument this time around is that US control of the island is vital for national security.
– What interest does the US have in Greenland?
Lying in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Europe and America, the island has long been a nexus of tensions among global powers. Besides being bigger than Mexico and Saudi Arabia, Greenland has a strategic location straddling the North Atlantic and the Arctic, a region whose vast stores of critical minerals and fossil fuels are coveted by the US, Russia and China. It’s already home to the US’s northernmost air base and a radar station that’s used for detecting missile threats and monitoring space.