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1867 – Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska).
WWII – FDR: U.S. took over Greenland’s defense while Denmark was occupied.
1946 – Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.
Cold War – Eisenhower → Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for bases, radar, missiles.
Post–Cold War – Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security & missile defense.
2019 – Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed privately for 150+ years.
The U.S. didn’t “suddenly” want Greenland.
It’s been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since the 1800s. Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals.
Trump didn’t invent it, he said the quiet part out loud.- Confusing map is confusing********
- Also this is more about messing with NATO********
- There is a difference that can't be ignored between offering to buy it and colonizing it.CyBrainX
- There's also the blackmail - if refused, he gonna take it how?********
- AND by his own dumb logic, then the vikings who discovered America should own it right?********
- if it's so integral why the perpetual stand down in US armed forces since the cold war?jonny_quest_lives
- TACO********
- TACO is egging him on because you want the world to end because your life sucksYakuZoku
- You're such a simple minded peasant who thinks he's an intellectualYakuZoku
- A critic, nothing more.YakuZoku
- Confusing map is confusing