{"id":87985,"date":"2019-08-26T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:20:13","slug":"donald-trump-reportedly-wants-greenland-can-you-really-buy-a-foreign-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/donald-trump-reportedly-wants-greenland-can-you-really-buy-a-foreign-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reportedly wants Greenland. Can you really buy a foreign territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>U.S. President has said that he wants to buy Greenland.However,the Denmark government dismissed his statement and said that Greenland was not for sale.<\/li><li>Greenland is the world&#8217;s largest island.It is an autonomous Denmark dependent territory with limited self-government and its own parliament.<\/li><li>Denmark contributes two thirds of Greenland&#8217;s budget revenue while the rest comes mainly from fishing.<\/li><li>The USA has long seen Greenland as strategically important and had established a radar base at Thule at the start of the Cold War.<\/li><li>The potential oil, gas and rare earth mineral reserves have also attracted prospecting firms.<\/li><li>Further,there have been several instances in the history of nations and especially the US acquiring foreign territory against payment.<\/li><li>One famous example is the purchase of Alaska which Russia&nbsp; transferred to the US in 1867 for $7.2 million.In 1819,the US had also bought Florida from Spain.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President has said that he wants to buy Greenland.However,the Denmark government dismissed his statement and said that Greenland was not for sale. Greenland is the world&#8217;s largest island.It is an autonomous Denmark dependent territory with limited self-government and its own parliament. Denmark contributes two thirds of Greenland&#8217;s budget revenue while the rest comes mainly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/donald-trump-reportedly-wants-greenland-can-you-really-buy-a-foreign-territory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump reportedly wants Greenland. Can you really buy a foreign territory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[4860,4618,63],"class_list":["post-87985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-denmark","tag-greenland","tag-us","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776009,"cached_date":1704856223},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}