Vol. 42, No. 04
04/01/2026
Sieving Through the Greenlandic Debate
So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump, by Elizabeth Buchanan, London: Melville House, 2025, 202 pages, paperback.
Perhaps you have heard: The United States is going to invade Greenland, or grab it in some fashion, perhaps annex it, use some force to seize it, or maybe Washington will just buy that frozen place — somehow wresting control of the world’s largest island from its 300 or so years of Danish rule (even though the island is 20 times the size of Denmark). It’s been all over the networks and major newspapers for some time.
Not surprisingly, that’s not what’s in the works. Yet So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump by Elizabeth Buchanan doesn’t hide the fact that President Donald Trump did not “hide his intention” to “own” Greenland.
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