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America鈥檚 long-standing designs on Greenland
Christa Case Bryant
The Trump administration has sent envoys to Copenhagen to make a new American pitch to control Greenland for U.S. security.
While some see this as a wild new idea, it turns out America has long had designs on the Danish territory. 鈥淗istory, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals,鈥� French historian Alexis de Tocqueville.
U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who spearheaded the purchase of Alaska, also commissioned a survey of the Danish territory in 1867, Mark Sappenfield and Audrey Thibert report in today鈥檚 lead article. In 1910, the U.S. ambassador to Denmark proposed an exchange in which the United States would take control of Greenland. And in 1946, the U.S. offered $100 million in gold for the island.
The value might have spiked since then, but a checkbook may not be necessary. The article details that there鈥檚 a long-standing framework for U.S.-Danish cooperation that already offers a solution to shared Arctic security.
