Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician with his eye on Greenland
President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.
The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before. Here’s how those past attempts went.
From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.
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An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
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What happened the previous three times the US attempted to acquire Greenland
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The wrangling over Greenland holds a mirror to modern geopolitics
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STEPHEN MOORE: Liberals Guffawing Over Trump’s Greenland Vision Might Want To Crack Open A History Book
The media and the intelligentsia are laughing at President Donald Trump’s idea of the United States acquiring Greenland from Denmark.
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On This Day in 1959, Alaska—One of America’s Riskiest Investments—Became the 49th State in the Union
When U.S. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, he negotiated a price of $7.2 million—about $153 million today—for almost 600,000 square miles of territory ...