People mocking the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland donāt know history.
1867 ā Andrew Johnson: explored buying Greenland & Iceland (right after Alaska).
WWII ā FDR: U.S. took over Greenlandās defense while Denmark was occupied.
1946 ā Truman: offered $100M in gold to buy it.
Cold War ā Eisenhower ā Kennedy: nonstop negotiations for bases, radar, missiles.
PostāCold War ā Clinton/Bush/Obama: expanded Arctic security & missile defense.
2019 ā Trump: said publicly what presidents discussed privately for 150+ years.
The U.S. didnāt āsuddenlyā want Greenland.
Itās been defending it, negotiating it, and embedding there since the 1800s.
Greenland = Arctic power, shipping lanes, missiles, minerals.
Trump didnāt invent it.
He said the quiet part out loud. -Garth Limburg
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