US Offers to Buy Greenland, Forgets Indigenous Population Lives There
Donald Trump recently 'doubled down' on his claim that the U.S. must 'take over' Greenland for 'national security' reasons, according to The Independent. He openly floated the idea of a 'large real estate deal,' as if the island, home to around 56,000 predominantly Inuit people, is just an empty lot waiting for a developer. This isn't just Trump's bravado; the U.S. formally offered Denmark $100
million for Greenland in 1946 (Source: National Archives), a bid soundly rejected then as now. The media frames this as a quirky Trumpism, but it’s a direct echo of 19th and 20th-century colonial expansion, where 'national security' was always the pretext for annexing indigenous lands. One might wonder, how many times must a nation state be 'bought' before its sovereignty is acknowledged? Perhaps
the next 'deal' will involve Florida being sold back to the Seminole Nation for 'regional climate security reasons'.