NORAD sent two F-16s from Alaska to Greenland to reinforce posture in the Arctic; meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland is “not a joke.” In the last few weeks,

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.

The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday,

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Greenland, a strategically important Arctic island, has gained international attention after President Trump declared his intention to buy it.

Chancellor Scholz meets with Danish Premier Frederiksen in Berlin, stresses 'inviolability of borders' is fundamental principle of international law - Anadolu Ajansı

Danish PM Frederiksen, however, signalled she had "no reason to believe there is a military threat to Greenland or Denmark."

In the days since President Donald Trump first spoke of buying Greenland from Denmark, the world’s largest Island has been in the news. The President’s statement begs the question: Is Greenland that important to the United States?

When Trump began rambling on about seizing Greenland on Jan. 7, most non-Americans saw it as a typical Trump stratagem to unsettle potential adversaries. He threatened to re-invade Panama and annex Canada at the same chaotic press conference, and the grown-ups elsewhere assumed that none of it needed to be taken seriously.

Trump has signalled his desire for the Arctic island, which is believed to hold large untapped mineral and oil reserves, to become part of the United States.

President Trump sees Greenland as having strategic national security value to the United States due to its location near