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Danish colony in the Caribbean
The United States would need Denmark’s and very likely Greenlanders’ explicit consent, plus adherence to international law and U.S. constitutional processes — primarily a treaty approved by two‑thirds...
acquired — , and — under the Convention of 4 August 1916 for a cash payment of $25 million in gold; the treaty was ratified by both governments in late 1916–early 1917 and the U.S. took formal possess...
Yes — Denmark has sold territory to the United States in the past: Copenhagen transferred the Danish West Indies (today’s U.S. Virgin Islands) to Washington in 1917 in a transaction shaped by strategi...
Greenland is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark: its people exercise broad internal self-government while Denmark retains responsibility for the realm’s sovereignty, defen...
Donald Trump has repeatedly pursued acquiring Greenland, first publicly in 2019 and again after his 2024 reelection, framing it as a strategic and resource-driven objective that he described in 2019 a...