If You Need to “Own” Greenland, You’re Doing Diplomacy Wrong

Greenland is a partner, not a purchase.

There are two ways to look at Greenland from far away. One way is as a shape on a map, an enormous white mass at the top of the world, parked on strategic air and sea routes, sitting on minerals, rare earths, fish, and the collective attention span of every great power that thinks the Arctic will define the next century. In that view, Greenland becomes …