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4 reasons why the US might want to buy Greenland – if it were for sale, which it isn’t

  • Written by Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

President-elect Donald Trump has sparked diplomatic controversy by suggesting the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland for reasons of “national security” and refusing to definitively rule out using military force to do so. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, “is not for sale,” said Denmark’s prime minister, Mette...

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