Purchasing Greenland is an old idea not invented by Cotton or Trump.
That a real estate mogul become POTUS would look for an opportunity to expand the nation’s land holdings, and to do so by contract not conquest, should surprise nobody. Just a matter of finding a suitable & affordable property of interest, which likely others had contemplated purchasing before but had not the drive nor talent stack to pursue.
Greenland is, in retrospect, an obvious choice: rich in untapped resources, sparsely populated, well positioned, culture roughly “western”. Of course others had contemplated it; just takes a Trump to make it happen.
Occurs to me that this prospect should be ENCOURAGED more, not tolerating the insults of the Left with faint defense. There is much in this world that could be improved if only it were internationally acceptable to BUY remote or blighted regions. There’s much rumbling about China taking over much of Africa, largely by purchase; would that Western countries take more such interest to leverage improvements therein with less native risk than their current suitors will inflict.
Yup. Mentioned and tried twice before. Well known fact.