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Greenland: Not for Sale

Posted by on Aug 29, 2019 in Current Events
Kangamiut village and port in Greenland
The village of Kangamiut is a port located in Greenland. Credit: Shutterstock/Vadim Nefedoff

This week’s story update on the Election Central Web updates you on the strange case of President Trump and Greenland.

It started out sounding like a joke: Trump announcing that he wanted to buy Greenland. In general, world leaders don’t just go around buying up each other’s countries. But Trump’s proposal caused a worldwide stir that has gone as far as to lead some political analysts to wonder if the United States might consider pulling out of NATO as a result. Here, Election Central takes a look at the “joke” that turned out to be not so funny.

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