Danish ambassador to the U.S., Jesper Møller Sørensen, and Greenland’s representative to the U.S., Jacob Isbosethsen also met with senators on Capitol Hill.

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.

A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a geostrategic asset for the Trump administration.

Still, coincidentally, the last foreign territory purchased by the United States was from Denmark. It bought the Virgin Islands in 1917 for $25 million. A few subsequent U.S. territorial expansions in the South Pacific were the result of annexations and treaties, according to the Global Policy Forum, a watchdog.

Canada increasingly fears a conflict in the Arctic following the Trump administration’s threats to take over Greenland and its seizure of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Bob Rae, Canada’s recently retired ambassador to the United Nations, said that US President Donald Trump had sparked global tensions unseen since the second world war.

D anish officials think they know how Donald Trump might seize Greenland. In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American p

Trump administration reportedly considering paying Greenland residents $10,000-$100,000 each to encourage secession from Denmark for U.S. acquisition.