@Sue. I can understand why Trump wants to acquire Greenland. However, as a self professed expert in real estate, surely rule number one is to talk to the person who has the rights to sell the property? In this case it appears to be Greenland itself rather than Denmark. Perhaps there's a reason so many of his business ventures have failed? Yes, it was common in colonial days for lands and their people to be sold, and in 1946 Britain, France and other European countries still had empires and colonies so the US offering to pay money to Denmark for Greenland was probably acceptable, particularly as Denmark would have been recovering from Nazi occupation at that time. Interesting that they refused that offer.@David. I believe Greenland left the EU, again on a narrow margin of 53% in favour, because of thee EU policies on fishing and animal skins. As veggie,near vegan, I don't want anything to do with those! I did read once that the reason for Article 50 was to cater for regions like that. Greenland does have some special relationship with the EU though, as do some French overseas regions that are not part of the EU. I see it took Greenland three years to leave. Perhaps one should expect a nation highly integrated with the EU and with a much larger economy to take longer: perhaps being realistic, five to ten years?
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