08-15-2019, 08:53 PM
President Trump made his name on the worldâ€s most famous island. Now he wants to buy the worldâ€s biggest. The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developerâ€s imagination... https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-...1565904223
The Daily Wire (WSJ is a paywall)... https://www.dailywire.com/news/50701/tru...nk-berrien
Denmark owns Greenland, although Greenland is self-ruled, At over 836,000 square miles, Greenland is the worldâ€s largest island (Australia and Antarctica are considered landmasses.) Despite its enormous size, only 56,000 people live in Greenland; thatâ€s because three-quarters of Greenland is covered by a permanent ice sheet.
Greenland came under the Norwegian crown in 1262; the Portuguese briefly claimed it at the start of the 16th century. In the early 1700â€s, Denmark and Norway, which were joined under one crown, owned the island, but in 1814 when the union was dissolved, Denmark took control. In 1979, Denmark granted Greenland home rule. Denmark now handles Greenlandâ€s foreign and security policy.
Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September. The Wall Street Journal notes, “A decades-old defense treaty between Denmark and the U.S. gives the U.S. military virtually unlimited rights in Greenland at Americaâ€s northernmost base, Thule Air Base. Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early warning system. The base is also used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.â€
The Daily Wire (WSJ is a paywall)... https://www.dailywire.com/news/50701/tru...nk-berrien
Denmark owns Greenland, although Greenland is self-ruled, At over 836,000 square miles, Greenland is the worldâ€s largest island (Australia and Antarctica are considered landmasses.) Despite its enormous size, only 56,000 people live in Greenland; thatâ€s because three-quarters of Greenland is covered by a permanent ice sheet.
Greenland came under the Norwegian crown in 1262; the Portuguese briefly claimed it at the start of the 16th century. In the early 1700â€s, Denmark and Norway, which were joined under one crown, owned the island, but in 1814 when the union was dissolved, Denmark took control. In 1979, Denmark granted Greenland home rule. Denmark now handles Greenlandâ€s foreign and security policy.
Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September. The Wall Street Journal notes, “A decades-old defense treaty between Denmark and the U.S. gives the U.S. military virtually unlimited rights in Greenland at Americaâ€s northernmost base, Thule Air Base. Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it includes a radar station that is part of a U.S. ballistic missile early warning system. The base is also used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.â€
