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The U.S. administration's proposal to acquire Greenland, which was rejected by Denmark and Greenland.
A cluster of House bills and companion Senate measures were introduced in January 2026 that address Greenland — proposals range from empowering the President to acquire or annex Greenland to measures ...
No credible reporting in the provided sources shows Russia literally warning that “the end of the world” will begin if President Trump presses ahead with plans to acquire Greenland; Moscow’s public rh...
A lawful U.S. acquisition of Greenland would require free, informed consent and multiple legal steps: a non-coercive international agreement (cession) involving Denmark and the people of Greenland, or...
President Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is driven publicly by national-security arguments about Arctic competition with China and Russia and privately by economic and resource ambitions—rare-earths and...
Greenland is not comfortable with the idea of the United States taking it over: Greenland’s government has explicitly rejected any U.S. takeover and public polling shows overwhelming opposition among ...
did indeed consider acquiring on more than one occasion: influential officials floated or investigated purchase plans in the late 1860s, diplomatic proposals surfaced , and a formal, high‑level offer ...
The short answer is: no — not imminently. The Trump administration has publicly pushed for “immediate negotiations” and a “framework” to gain access or control over , but that push has run up against ...
France deployed a small military detachment to Greenland to take part in Denmark’s Danish‑led exercise "Operation Arctic Endurance," sending mountain troops and saying further land, air and sea assets...
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...
Declassified 1946 memos show that senior U.S. officials seriously explored an outright —offering roughly $100 million in gold—and that the proposal was driven by immediate postwar strategic and milita...
The offer to buy — a reportedly secret $100 million-in-gold bid made and rejected by — crystallizes themes that still shape modern thinking about territorial purchases: strategic value, legal constrai...
Denmark and Greenland have mounted a unified diplomatic pushback against repeated U.S. pressure over Greenland, calling American threats “unacceptable” and warning that any U.S. attack would shatter N...
Denmark did respond to the Greenland dispute by announcing and beginning to expand military activity, assets and allied participation around Greenland—measures far beyond the “dog sleds” caricature in...