President Donald Trump’s flirtation with taking Greenland is not a new American pastime. For more than a century, United States officials have been eager to gain access to the island’s vast deposits of oil, natural gas and critical minerals, write Corbin Hiar and Hannah Northey.

"This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved," Rubio said. Greenland's prime minister has repeatedly said the island is not for sale.

President Donald Trump has openly called for the US to annex Greenland. However, Greenland‘s residents don‘t want to be part of the US empire. Unfortunately,

The US president says he wants Greenland for security reasons. But Greenland is not terra nullius ripe for American colonisation.

Greenland residents "want to be with us," Trump told reporters Saturday on presidential aircraft Air Force One.

President Donald Trump’s bid for the island is an old idea without much appeal among modern drillers and miners, analysts say.

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the news at a briefing Friday. She said Trump will impose a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports starting Feb. 1, and a 10% tariff on Chinese imports starting the same day.

The poll showed that 45% of Greenlanders see Trump’s proposal as a threat, while 43% see it as an opportunity. Trump has said that Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, is strategically important to the United States.

BERLIN, January 31. /TASS/. NATO could make a proposal to US President Donald Trump for a significant expansion of the alliance's military presence in the Arctic amid his push for the US to take control over Greenland, the DPA news agency reported, citing NATO sources.

In the United States, tariffs typically serve a limited but important purpose: They are intended to grow America’s economy by incentivizing the purchase of made-in-the-USA goods. They accomplish that by effectively penalizing American companies that buy foreign goods with high taxes.