Three reasons why Trump wants Greenland - and how he might achieve it
Bogdan Hofbauer
Donald Trump is not the first US leader to be interested in securing Greenland, the biggest island in the world. During the Second World War, the US occupied Greenland when Denmark was occupied by Germany , but at the end of the war the US was reluctant to leave. In 1949, both the US and Denmark joined NATO , and in 1951 they signed a treaty which legally obliged the US to defend Greenland. This was followed in 1953 by the US building Thule Air Base, which has subsequently been renamed Pituffik
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