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[7] [8] [5] [1] The British acted after John Douglas Hazen successfully proposed at the Imperial War Conference that the British Empire buy Greenland for Canada to prevent the United States from acquiring it. [9] Since 1823 the United States has, in the Monroe Doctrine, opposed expansion of foreign sovereignty in the Americas. [10]
The incoming Trump administration has reinvoked chatter about the possibility of the United States purchasing Greenland, an idea floated during the president-elect's first term in office. In his ...
"I love maps," Trump told the authors. "And I always said: 'Look at the size of this. It's massive. That should be part of the United States.'"
The United States' occupation of Greenland continued until 1945. Greenland was able to buy goods from the United States and Canada by selling cryolite from the mine at Ivittuut. In World War II, the United States military used Bluie as a code name for Greenland, where they kept several bases named "Bluie (East or West) (sequential numeral)". [60]
In 2017, the Danish government declined a proposal from China to purchase an abandoned naval base on Greenland over concerns the arrangement would strain its relations with the United States. American president Donald Trump discussed the idea of purchasing Greenland with senior advisers.
Trump: Buying Greenland Could Be 'Real Estate Deal'
This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations.The entities listed below differ from separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing states, territories, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation, confederation or other type of unified sovereign ...
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