Greenland’s population is overwhelmingly against leaving the Danish realm in favor of the US, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s insistence the island is keen to join.
Ultimately, the U.S. would successfully pressure Denmark to sell the islands by threatening a military attack on the neutral nation during World War I.
Because the US has a history of buying islands form Denmark — that’s where the US Virgin Islands come from.
Plus that’s an example that escalated …