Even though President Trump's interest in buying Greenland has been mocked and vehemently rejected, he shouldn't worry too much about US' geopolitical positioning in the Arctic, writes Mikkel Rosengaard for CNNOpinion
Mikkel Rosengaard is a Danish writer and the author of"The Invention of Ana" . The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
President Donald Trump made his name in real estate on the world's glitziest island with the help of tax breaks and loopholes. As President, it seems Trump wants to take his real estate experience to a new level. If reports are to be believed, the President has asked his White House counsel to research the idea of the US purchasing Greenland — an autonomous country and the world's largest island — from the Kingdom of Denmark.Greenland is home to 56,000 people, and the notion of buying an indigenous people and their ancestral lands smacks of colonialism and is deeply problematic.
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