President Donald Trump wants Greenland. When does he want it? Now!

“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News recently, adding that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that he doesn’t “take anything off the table.”

Meanwhile, during his visit to the would-be American territory, Vice President and enabler-in-chief JD Vance added, “We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.”

Can’t we?

Now, the idea of adding Greenland to the United States isn’t new, with American officials having had their eyes on the not-so-green island long before Trump first floated the idea in 2019.

In 1946, President Harry Truman offered Denmark $100 million in gold to buy it outright, albeit under the shadows of Cold War secrecy. William C. Trimble, assistant chief of the State Department’s division of northern European affairs, noted that an American purchase of Greenland would provide “valuable bases from which to launch an air counteroffensive over the Arctic area in the event of attack.” While the purchase was never completed, the United States did achieve its goal of American bases in Greenland.

Even earlier, in 1867, during the same year of the Alaska Purchase, U.S. officials explored acquiring both Greenland and Iceland.

Why the interest in Greenland? Well, its position is of huge strategic significance, standing as a physical barrier between North America and Russia. It’s a geopolitical goldmine, not to mention the country’s untapped natural resources.

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