Going green
Barry Scott Zellen explains why – as Trump 2.0 begins – Greenland is taking centre stage
It was just over five years ago, in August 2019, that President Trump first proposed purchasing Greenland from Denmark, and to thereby complete the centuries-long project to decolonize the North American Arctic that began with the Alaska purchase in 1867, which ended Russia’s colonization of the far North-West of North America, and the British North America Act that very same year bringing self-governance to Canada as well. The last colonial outpost in Arctic North . . .
