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Mark Twain's famous advice, “Buy land, they're not making it anymore,” would have never found a more receptive audience than President Donald Trump, a mental real estate man who craves a certain property north.
Vice President J.D. Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha traveled to an island nation this week to visit US Space Force bases.
We accuse Denmark of treating the Greenlanders as “second class citizens.”
When Trump talks about foreign countries, it should be noted that he almost always mentions properties he owns, golf courses in Scotland, or hotels in Dubai. He's not just boasting. He says he understands the country because he has skin in the game.
This is not the president who places many stores in an intangible multilateral defense agreement that allows the United States to pay for the protection of Greenland, Denmark. No, he wants land, not a complicated lease agreement.
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And is that a very crazy concept? We are the country that pushed Lewis and Clark across the Rocky Mountains. We have acquired Alaska and Hawaii, Guam and all the little micro islands no one has ever been to.
The last time the United States grew on territory was added in 1947 by the Marshall Islands and other islands, but for the past 78 years it was an outlier. Before that, my appetite for the land in America was almost insatiable.
So why not Greenland?
The only reason Greenland is Danish in the first place is that the Vikings collided 1,000 years ago. It's been too cold for others to care since then.
And, ultimately, the people of Greenland should decide their sovereignty, but that is not the only consideration in the world where Arctic rule means rule over the earth.
Trump's interests in America may be most useful by owning a strategic state.
You can see a video showing Greenlander asking Trump to buy his country. Some Danes have launched petitions seeking California purchases in response to Trump's interests in obtaining the Danish territory of Green Hand. (ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES)
Above all, what's hindering the big beautiful deal to buy Greenland is what Denmark tried to do after occupying and protecting the big island in World War II while under German control is the post-Cold War order of the past 40 years.
Under the neoliberal bromation of good hair leaders, the US-led West has come to see newly created borders in Europe and elsewhere.
It worked for a while. There was no World War III, but even by the mid-1990s, former Yugoslavia was in violent turmoil, there was no peace in the Middle East, and Russia painted the border with Ukraine for decades.
To Trump, and many Americans who think like him, if a country like Russia is expanding, if China is looking to do so, especially if the defense of the free world is taking place in our dime, we cannot sit on the sidelines.
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In chess, in the early 20th century, we saw the emergence of hypermodern styles where traditional wisdom, where pawns had to physically occupy the center of the committee, was thrown aside in favor of a powerful piece that controlled the center from afar.
However, unlike chess, geopolitics doesn't have a solid, individual set of rules. So we can see why Trump prefers the idea of physically retaining the universe, rather than being protected by a vague collection of Western interests.
It sounds strange when Trump calls borders “artificial lines,” as we are conditioned by post-Cold War orders. But that is absolutely true. Borders are negotiated and you might think of them as a kind of real estate transaction.
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No one wants to go to war in Greenland, but that's not the reason why they don't sell this deal to the 57,000 people living there. America has plenty of offers and perhaps Trump can make an offer too good to reject them.
In any case, as Americans, we should not be shocked or embarrassed by the idea of expanding our territory. It's not just what Trump has always done, it's in America's DNA.
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