Buying Greenland Could Cost the US $700 billion

From ‘Trump will never be able to buy Greenland’, to ‘it’s going to be very expensive’.

When US President Donald J. Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland, he was equally ridiculed by European political leaders and the MSM.

But now, after a full year of pressure, negotiations, and threats, no one is smiling anymore – and they’ve already started calculating the price!

Buying Greenland, a report suggests, could cost as much as $700 billion, officials are estimating.

The Telegraph reported:

“Denmark and Greenland insist the semi-autonomous Danish territory is not for sale, but the US president has insisted he will take it “one way or the other” for national security reasons.

[…] Academics and former US officials were asked to estimate costs as part of planning for a takeover of the island, which has sought-after rare-earth minerals and is strategically positioned in the far north.

The sum of $700bn is equivalent to more than half the US defense department’s annual budget.”

NBC News reported:

“The estimate was generated by scholars and former U.S. officials as part of planning around Trump’s aspiration to acquire the 800,000-square-mile island as a strategic buffer in the Arctic against America’s top adversaries, these people said. It attaches a price tag of more than half the Defense Department’s annual budget to Trump’s national security priority, which has stoked anxiety across Europe and on Capitol Hill amid his rhetoric about seizing Greenland since he ordered a U.S. military raid to capture Venezuela’s president and his wife.

Greenland, the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, is not for sale. Officials from Denmark and Greenland have rejected Trump’s claims that the U.S. will acquire Greenland ‘one way or the other’. A senior White House official, however, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been directed to come up with a proposal in the coming weeks to purchase Greenland, describing such a plan as a ‘high priority’ for Trump.”

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“’I’d love to make a deal with them’, Trump told reporters Sunday when he was asked whether there is a deal Greenland could offer. ‘It’s easier. But one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland’.”