Greenland isn’t for sale — but it is for lease
Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow would fail to reflect the complex flows of capital, services, and goods that are already occurring at the top of the world’s largest island.
September 10, 2019
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Trump’s much-lampooned interest in purchasing Greenland is finally falling out of the headlines.
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