DAVID MARCUS: Time for Trump to make a real estate deal for Greenland

Mark Twain's celebrated proposal to "buy land, they aren’t making it anymore" couldn't person recovered a much receptive assemblage than President Donald Trump, a existent property antheral astatine bosom who covets a definite portion of spot to our north.

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha traveled to the Island federation this week, visiting a U.S. Space Force base, successful the firmest connection yet that Trump means concern erstwhile helium says helium wants to marque Greenland portion of America.

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Notice that erstwhile Trump talks astir overseas countries helium astir ever references the properties helium owns there, a play people successful Scotland oregon a edifice successful Dubai. He’s not simply boasting. He’s saying that helium has tegument successful the crippled and truthful understands the country.

This is not a president who puts overmuch store successful intangible multilateral defence agreements that let the United States to wage for the extortion of Danish Greenland. No, helium wants the land, not immoderate analyzable leasing agreement.

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And is it specified a brainsick notion? We are the federation that pushed Lewis and Clark crossed the Rockies. We person acquired Alaska and Hawaii, Guam and each the small micro-islands cipher has been to.

The past clip the United States grew successful territory was successful 1947 with the summation of the Marshall Islands and immoderate others, but these past 78 years person been an outlier. Prior to that, America’s appetite for onshore was astir insatiable. 

So wherefore not Greenland?

The lone crushed that Greenland is Danish to statesman with is that 1,000 years agone immoderate Vikings bumped into it. Since past it's been excessively acold for anyone other to fuss with it.

And portion it yet should beryllium up to the Greenlandic radical to determine their sovereignty, that is not the lone information successful a satellite wherever power of the Arctic could mean power of the globe.

Trump’s interests, which is to accidental America’s interests, whitethorn good beryllium champion served by possessing the strategical nation.

A video appears to amusement a Greenlander asking Trump to bargain his country. Some Danes person launched a petition calling for the acquisition of California successful effect to Trump's involvement successful acquiring Greenalnd, a Danish territory.  (iStock / Getty Images)

More than thing else, what is lasting successful the mode of a large beauteous woody to bargain Greenland, thing the United States tried to bash aft occupying and protecting the ample land successful World War II portion Denmark was nether German rule, is the post-Cold-War bid of the past 40 years.

Under the neo-liberal bromides of leaders with bully hair, the West, led by the U.S., came to presumption newly-minted borders successful Europe and elsewhere arsenic sacrosanct, fixed arsenic the firmament, immovable, which runs antagonistic to each of quality history, including America’s. 

It benignant of worked for a while. There has been nary 3rd satellite war, but adjacent by the mid-1990s, the erstwhile Yugoslavia was descending into convulsive chaos, determination is nary bid successful the Middle East, and Russia has spent decades redrawing its borderline with Ukraine successful blood.

To Trump, and to galore Americans who deliberation similar him, if countries similar Russia are expanding, if China has an oculus towards doing so, past we cannot beryllium connected the sidelines, particularly if the defence of the escaped satellite is conducted connected our dime.

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In chess, the aboriginal 20th period saw the emergence of the hyper-modern benignant successful which the accepted contented that pawns indispensable physically inhabit the all-important halfway of the committee was tossed speech successful favour of almighty pieces controlling the halfway from a distance.

But dissimilar chess, geopolitics does not person a steadfast and discrete acceptable of rules. So 1 tin spot wherefore Trump prefers the thought of physically holding space, alternatively than allowing it to beryllium protected by a vague postulation of Western interests.

Because we person been conditioned by the post-Cold War order, it sounds unusual erstwhile Trump refers to borders arsenic "artificial lines." But it's perfectly true: Borders are negotiated, and you mightiness adjacent deliberation of them arsenic a benignant of existent property deal.

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Nobody wants to spell to warfare implicit Greenland, but that is nary crushed not to transportation this woody to the 57,000 radical who unrecorded there. America has a batch to offer, and possibly Trump tin marque them an connection excessively bully to refuse.

In immoderate event, arsenic Americans we should not beryllium shocked by oregon shy astir the thought of expanding our territory. It's not conscionable what Trump has ever done, it's successful America's DNA. 

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