How the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark and are now about to buy Greenland from the Danes as well

Few people realise that there ever was a colony called the Danish West Indies. It is only by studying history that we are able to understand the present and predict the future.

When President Trump announced that he intended that the United States would acquire sovereignty over Greenland, many people were quick to suggest that he was deluded and that it was a mad idea. Properly to understand what is going on though, we need to look at the history of the United States and, in particular, its dislike of European colonies or possessions too close to the North American continent.