When President-elect Donald Trump talked about acquiring Greenland for the United States he was following a long tradition of US presidents musing about this issue. In 1867 President Andrew Johnson thought about trying to buyGreenland. So did President William Taft in 1910. During the Second...
Donald Trump has threatened to retake control of the Panama Canal - accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the crucial trade passage and warning of potential Chinese influence. The US president-elect has also renewed his call for the US to buy Greenland from Denma...
Trump has also ruffled European feathers with a separate territorial proposal — to buy Greenland, an island abutting the emerging Arctic geopolitical battleground that the former real estate developer sees as important to US security. Tru...
Trump’s Greenland bid Lavrov was asked to comment on Trump’s intention to buy Greenland from Denmark, a proposal that Copenhagen has thoroughly rejected. He said that considering the island’s autonomous status, Greenlanders feasibly have a right to self-determination under the UN Charter, as...
"Trump is trying to kick in an open door,” Greenland's Minister for Mineral Resources Naaja Nathanielsen told Euractiv in her office in Nuuk. Whether US firms take the opportunity is another question. “Currently, there is only one American-owned exploration licence. Cana...
To kick Zelensky out of power, the POTUS also expressed his interest in forcing elections in Ukraine as part of any diplomatic resolution to the war. The biggest sucker is Europe, which had poured large amounts of aid into Ukraine. From trying to grab Gree...
A second official, a diplomat, said the comments will jeopardize the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza and likened them to what Trump has said about absorbing Canada and buying Greenland. “It is essential to recognize the profound implications such proposals have on the lives and dignity of the...
So the question is, who’s going to vote on the plebiscite? Well, this was just obviously a charade. And I think that what Trump is trying to do is not really going to invade Greenland because I think you might need congressional approval to declare war on something. I think the whole...
Getting fusion is just a matter of money, and that money should be diverted from trying to repeat the Greco-Roman energy sources (also cutting off funding for friends and family of those who lead Europe by the nose would help). The first fusion rockets may fly within a couple of years....
Survey: US Factory Activity Rises to Near a 3-Year High More The Associated Press FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, work continues on the interior of the first of the large Boeing 737 MAX 9 models as it sits at the front of the assembly line and almost ready ...