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The U.S. interest in acquiring Greenland and its impact on the debate about Greenland's independence.
Multiple news reports—many tracing to a Daily Mail story—say Donald Trump instructed senior special-operations commanders to prepare “contingency” or invasion plans for Greenland, but there is no defi...
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour foreign correspondent, published the text of a letter attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre — posting the text publicly on ...
— has never been a U.S. possession or part of the , though has repeatedly sought to control or influence the island through wartime defense arrangements, base rights and several purchase proposals tha...
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...
Denmark cannot practically or legitimately unilaterally "sell" Greenland as if it were estate property; Greenland is an autonomous territory with rights to self-determination and strong, repeated publ...
Greenland broadly aspires to eventual independence: major Greenlandic parties and laws enshrine a right to self‑determination, and opinion polls have shown majority support for independence in princip...
has never owned ; U.S. forces have held basing rights and repeatedly sought to purchase or control the island, but sovereignty has remained (and increasingly Greenlandic under home rule) throughout mo...
never owned as sovereign territory either during or afterward; instead it assumed responsibility for the island’s defense, established military bases there during the war, maintained a presence into ,...
Sustaining NATO forces in Greenland and Iceland would confront a blend of hard logistics — vast distances, sparse military infrastructure and constrained air/sea lines of communication — and hard poli...
Greenlandic authorities occupy a complex, sometimes ambiguous role in decisions about foreign basing under the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement: legally, Denmark retained responsibility for defence...
No — never owned ; it has at times acted as a military protector, sought to buy the island, and maintained bases there, but legal sovereignty has remained with and Greenlanders have increasingly exerc...
ic political leaders present a complex, not monolithic, posture: publicly they have rallied with to reject U.S. designs while internally maintaining a long‑term goal of , and opinion polls consistentl...
has not put forward an official claim or formal bid to acquire ; Kremlin spokespeople have repeatedly framed Greenland as part of the while saying is watching moves closely and commenting with a mix o...
Denmark has ordered an immediate increase in military activity in and around Greenland, inviting small reconnaissance and exercise contingents from several European NATO allies including France, Germa...
The claim that Denmark’s prime minister invested "2 million dollars into Greenland national security" cannot be verified in the provided reporting: contemporary coverage documents a major Danish push ...
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 ...
Reports that President Trump has ordered U.S. generals to “draw up a plan” to invade Greenland are mixed: mainstream outlets document that the White House is actively discussing multiple options to ac...
Greenland’s strategic importance to the United States is rooted in a Cold War-era security logic—its geography anchors early-warning, missile-defense and Arctic surveillance networks and sits astride ...
Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark: legally part of the Danish realm but exercising extensive self-government since 1979 with powers expanded under the 2009 Self-Govern...