Dan Drollette Jr
Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States of America, has been expressing a desire to annex the territory of other countries—including that of some allies, such as Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. (He has also repeatedly talked of making Canada, one of the United States’ oldest and closest friends, into a 51st state.) Trump declared in his State of the Union address to Congress that he intends to gain control of Greenland “one way or the other”—and even sent Vice President J.D. Vance there in late March, to make a pitch for Greenland to consider US leadership by claiming that Denmark is “failing” at securing the Arctic island.
It seems that Greenland is still in the minds of the Trump Administration, though in a more low-key way that has not dominated the news cycle as much lately. According to the Greenland newspaper High North News,[1] the administration has been doing small, subtle, low-key activities like moving Greenland to US Northern Command for all US military operations, for what the Pentagon claims is “part of US homeland defense.” (The map was previously drawn so that Greenland was under “US-European Command.”)
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