AIA 🇺🇸🇬🇱 | The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland since 1946 — and it’s never worked

In 1946, President Harry Truman made the first official U.S. offer to buy Greenland from Denmark.

The price? $100 million in gold.

The Cold War was just beginning, and U.S. officials called Greenland “indispensable to the safety of the United States.”

They even argued it was “completely worthless to Denmark” and said, “money is plentiful now” — so why not sell?

Secretary of State James Byrnes formally pitched the deal to Denmark’s foreign minister in New York, December 1946.

The logic: Greenland would provide strategic Arctic bases for launching air counteroffensives in case of attack.

Denmark said no.

The U.S. still gained permission to build multiple military bases over time — but today, only one remains:

Pituffik Space Base.

For nearly 80 years, Denmark has rejected every U.S. attempt to buy Greenland.

Trump wasn’t the first to ask — he’s just the first who didn’t like the answer.

Source: CNN

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