The demands of United States President Trump at the outset of his second term in office have put the world's largest island into direct conflict with the world's most powerful state. The Trump administration's desire to make Greenland part of the US has caused considerable consternation among the Indigenous population of just 57,000 people -- though this isn't the first time that America has made a bid for ownership of this gargantuan Arctic landmass. Kristian and Henry Neilsen, in their 2021 book Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice, detail an offer of one billion US dollars made to Denmark, which had ruled Greenland under the auspices of the Danish crown since 1814, in December 1946. The United States then, as now, desired control of Greenland to bolster international security against their nuclear foes in Russia.

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