Trump’s Greenland Strategy Is Part of the New Arctic Power Struggle
Seven hundred billion dollars. That’s the figure being floated as the potential price tag for acquiring Greenland, according to recent reporting.
Call me skeptical, but I don’t think anyone’s cutting a $700 billion check anytime soon. For comparison’s sake, that’s more than half of the Defense Department’s entire 2024 budget.
Public opinion isn’t exactly lining up behind the idea, either, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that “anything less than [the complete U.S. control of Greenland] is unacceptable.”
Americans are telling pollsters they don’t support the idea, whether peacefully or otherwise. A recent YouGov survey showed that only 13% of Americans are in favor of paying Greenland’s residents to…
