Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.

The newly inaugurated president held forth on multiple foreign policy issues on Saturday, from Greenland to Canada to the war between Israel and Hamas.

What drives the United States’ bold geopolitical ambitions toward Greenland and Canada? It boils down to economic and national security.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen sought to drum up support from European allies to stand up to Donald Trump’s efforts to appropriate Greenland, as she tried to project unity while avoiding antagonizing the US president.

In Washington, some Trump allies are warming to the challenge. Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) this month introduced the “Make Greenland Great Again” Act, which would direct Congress to back Trump’s negotiations to acquire the territory.

Britain would have first rights to purchase Greenland before the United States, the Arctic territory's last Danish Minister has claimed. Tom Høyem, Copenhagen's former permanent representative to Greenland,

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appealed for a more united Europe committed to stronger defence during a visit to Berlin on Tuesday. "We need a stronger and a more resolute Europe, standing increasingly in its own right,

Speaking alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Berlin on Tuesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again condemned all territorial expansionist ambitions, regardless of who pursues them.

Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in annexing Greenland and again suggested Canada could become a US state.

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

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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.