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D. There are about 150 U.S. military personnel at a base in Greenland. Trump said he needs to own the island to protect it from Russia and China. However, under treaties with Denmark, the United States may already deploy as many troops as it wants to help protect Greenland.
A. The 27 nations of the European Union sell more to the United States than they buy from it. European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) also depend on the United States to come to their defense if they are attacked. Those ties make it difficult to deal with the Trump administration’s attempt to force an ally of 77 years to give up territory it held long before the United States even existed.
B. 57,751 people are living on Greenland’s 836,330 square miles, or one person for every 14.5 square miles, according to the CIA World Factbook. About 660,000 square miles of the island is covered by the largest ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere. Nearly 90% of Greenlanders are Inuit, descendants of native people who have lived there for thousands of years.
D. In a Reuters poll last week, 71% of American adults said it would be a bad idea for the United States to take Greenland from Denmark. Only 4% said it would be a “good idea” to use military force. More than half of respondents in a poll said Trump has “gone too far” in intervening in other countries. And, 70% of Americans said Congressional approval should be required for any military action.