President Donald Trump has reiterated his interest in purchasing Greenland, raising concerns about potential military or economic measures to achieve the goal. Greenland’s strategic location draws global attention,

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined with a Danish lawmaker on Monday to push back against President Trump’s continued insistence that U.S. control of Greenland is necessary for American national

Investment in Pituffik has been inconsistent, however, and its importance has waned since the Cold War. Renewed attention to Greenland could help the U.S. counter Russia’s growing Arctic dominance and China’s ambitions as a “near-Arctic” power.

President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk.

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

For that matter, I also don’t believe that, as Yale historian Timothy Snyder warns, Trump’s Greenland bluster may be intended to enable the authoritarian imperialistic regimes in Russia and China by undermining “the international legal order” based on the sovereignty of states and the inviolability of borders—or even recycling Vladimir Putin’s arguments defending his land grabs in Ukraine.

Rather than appeal to Denmark’s goodwill, President Trump’s rhetoric risks trapping the U.S. in a cycle of increasing coercion.

We need it for international security. And I’m sure that Denmark will come along — it’s costing them a lot of money to maintain it, to keep it,” says new U.S. president.

"We could make a deal with Trump and split Greenland into a couple of pieces," said Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian politician.

Geopolitical tensions surrounding Greenland are escalating, with Russia seeking to insert itself into the American-Danish dispute. Speaking on state television, a Russian lawmaker suggested that Greenland should be divided into sections,