Recently the US again offered to buy Greenland from Denmark. Unfortunately, Denmark refused.
That is not good because island is too large for Denmark to control militarily all on its own. Because of that countries such as China and Russia might use parts of if secretly. Terrorists of various kind might make it their base of operation as well. That can potentially endanger the entire world.
However, Denmark's opinion is understandable as well. They found it first and put some effort into colonizing and establishing settlements on it. Aside from that Denmark suspects that there could be plenty of natural resources underneath the island and do not want to sell it to America for cheap, just to find out that there is oil or gold underneath the glaciers.
That is what happened to Alaska after all, Russia sold it to the US for cheap as Russians did not find anything but otters there. Otters alone are not valuable enough to warrant a bigger price. However shortly after purchase Americans found gold and oil there. Some in Russia felt that the deal was unfair. Denmark too possibly suspects that Americans found some resources on the island and now want to buy it to not pay Danes any royalties for exploiting these resources.
However, the island is big, and the US and Denmark can simply agree to divide it among themselves. Danes can keep their settlement on southern part of the island. The US can take the northern half.
Alternatively, Denmark can sell the entire island but with special clause that entitles them to a share of profit from all the resources, Americans will manage to find on the island.
Final option would be for the EU to take over the island as the first directly administered EU territory. That way security of the island will we responsibility of all EU member states.
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