Over 150 years ago, in 1867, the United States acquired Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Since then, it has not expanded its national territory in the Arctic, or for that matter very much elsewhere in the world.Yet, since 2019, and especially since early this year, President Donald Trump has often stressed a serious desire to acquire Greenland.The sprawling but sparsely populated Danish territory is almost one quarter the size of the continental United States, but home to less than 60,000 people, and located in close proximity to the North Pole.Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., as well as …READ FULL ARTICLE
