U.S. President Donald Trump has cast renewed focus on acquiring Greenland. The administration’s increasingly assertive push to take control of the Danish territory could have significant consequences for both the Arctic and the NATO alliance.

"All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago," Trump said.

As naysayers shouted down Trump’s aspiration as ridiculous and colonial, he defied his critics, including those present at the Davos conference, as he proposed a framework.

Donald Trump shared posts on Truth Social depicting the US flag including Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela, and a milepost marking Greenland as a US Territory. He reiterated his stance on acquiring Greenland for national security,

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COMMENTARY President Trump may be following a brazen and brutish version of the Monroe Doctrine on issues like Greenland — but the world shouldn't be shocked that it still lingers in U.S. policy.

After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.

President Donald Trump pressed for the U.S. to annex Greenland during a combative address at the World Economic Forum in Davos

After being inhabited only by Indigenous peoples for centuries, the Arctic island saw the Vikings in the 10th century and the Danes in 1721, and it attracted American interest back in 1867.

The president's push to gain control of Greenland, a Danish territory, has created anxiety about the future of the alliance throughout Europe.