US Discusses Buying Greenland, Forgetting Inhabitants Have Rights
BBC World's latest 'investigation' into Donald Trump's repeated desire to 'acquire' Greenland dissects the 'right' of the US to do so. The piece focuses on legal minutiae, effectively sanitizing the colonial undertones of a superpower discussing the purchase of inhabited land from another nation. It’s a spectacular display of missing the forest for a single, withered tree. This isn't just a quirky
Trump whim; it's a centuries-old pattern of powerful nations treating land (and the people on it) as commodities. From the displacement of Native Americans to the annexation of Hawaii, the US has a rich history of 'acquiring' territories, often with minimal regard for the self-determination of their residents. One might wonder what the 'BBC Verify' team found when researching the 1898 invasion of
Hawaii, the purchase of Alaska from Russia, or the constant 'expansion' of US interests abroad.