How to Pay for Greenland

Lacking the historical reasons behind the Alaska Purchase, we would need to get creative to acquire Greenland today.

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Upernavik in western Greenland, 2015

Ritzau Scanpix/Linda Kastrup via Reuters

Greenland would be very hard to buy, even if acquiring it makes sense. We may reasonably be able to get many of the benefits we want without a formal purchase, and that seems to be the rationale behind Donald Trump starting the bidding by asking for everything. But let’s say that we were actually going to buy the world’s largest island. That would raise three big questions: From whom? For how much? And structured how?

Pricing It Out

Dan McLaughlin

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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