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US has a long history of strategic land purchases
One sovereign nation purchasing land from another. This method of gaining territory had long been forgotten. But US President Donald Trump has revived it with Greenland. While everyone in Europe and elsewhere, perhaps by habit, has rejected the idea, I tend to ask myself: if they were capable, wouldn’t they want to do it too? Yet the shift in global power is now holding them back. History shows that the powerful have always traded lands. Now, amid a shifting global order, the concept is worth evaluating again. After all, which is better: acquiring land by war or by trade?
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theguardian.com
Greenland crisis: Europe needs the US, but it also needs to stand up to Trump
US president’s increasingly bellicose demands for control of the island may force the EU to draw a line in the snow
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tass.com
Trump explains his claims for Greenland by US subsidies to EU countries
American President added that "China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it"
