While President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland may have faded from the public’s attention amid other news since he took office, he brought it up again this week. Renewed interest in Greenland is also highlighting an interesting fact about its size.
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US interests in Greenland are closely tied to its broader strategies for maintaining global dominance. These strategies are outlined in various forms across academic literature, official documents, and military manuals.
NUUK, Greenland — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world’s largest island.
We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory.
We respect the Greenlandic right to self-determination,' Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen says in response US President Trump’s threats to take over semi-autonomous territory of Denmark - Anadolu Aja
The vast autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, coveted by US President Donald Trump, is believed to hold untapped mineral and oil reserves, but on a global scale these amounts are modest and offer only minor potential for exploitation.