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International relations and diplomacy in the Arctic region, including the potential implications of the US acquisition of Greenland.
The short answer: no — the 1951 U.S.–Denmark defense agreement gives Washington sweeping operational rights in Greenland but does not lawlessly permit the United States to “set up whatever military pr...
The 1951 Denmark–US defense agreement established U.S. responsibility to assist in the defence of Greenland under NATO and created a durable legal framework for American basing and operations on the i...
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...
President Donald Trump sent a blunt message to Norway’s prime minister tying his campaign to acquire Greenland to bitterness over not receiving the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, saying he “no longer feels a...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that Donald Trump "ordered the military to drop a plan to invade Greenland"; instead multiple outlets report he ordered U.S. commanders to draw u...
Greenland’s legal-political evolution since the 1951 Defense Agreement has shifted real political authority from Copenhagen to Nuuk while leaving defense and ultimate sovereignty formally with the Kin...
The United States is not on the verge of a classic military seizure of Greenland, but the White House has privately and publicly discussed a spectrum of aggressive options—including purchase, induceme...
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
The record is clear: is aggressively pursuing and repeatedly ties that pursuit to national security, but U.S. officials and analysts also explicitly link the effort to Greenland’s oil, —so natural res...
Several U.S. presidents have tried to buy territory or land — most famously Thomas Jefferson with the Louisiana Purchase and Andrew Johnson with Alaska — while others have proposed purchases (or engag...
President Trump in early January 2026 publicly renewed a campaign to “acquire” Greenland, declaring the United States would act “whether they like it or not” and suggesting options ranging from purcha...
President Trump and his White House team are actively discussing ways to acquire Greenland — ranging from a formal purchase or economic arrangements to explicitly keeping the U.S. military “always an ...
President Trump’s quip — “The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land” — compresses three separate debates into one sentence: the historical roots of human pres...
Donald Trump has publicly renewed an aggressive push to acquire Greenland and asserted that using the U.S. military is “always an option,” a stance that has rattled European capitals and exposed a wid...
Donald Trump has repeatedly said the United States should acquire Greenland for national-security reasons and has directed aides to explore options ranging from purchase to a Compact of Free Associati...