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It's happened before. Truman offered - $100 million for it

Posted: Aug 17th, 2019 - 9:38 am In Reply to: He thinks he's doing some kind of deal, - LOL

"...(a) U.S. acquisition of Greenland is not at all a strange or irrational idea. Following Denmark's fall to Nazi Germany in 1940, American forces defended Greenland. The roots of American-Greenland comradeship are thus old and formal. In 1946, one Harry S. Truman even attempted to purchase Greenland for $100 million..."

(IIRC Greenland is owned by the King of Denmark, and not Denmark the nation-state.)



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