Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark Kawar
“When Donald Trump first suggested that the United States should purchase Greenland, the reaction in Washington was disbelief mixed with ridicule. The United States, it had seemed, long ago settled its borders. Territorial expansion belonged to a different era. Yet in the longer arc of American history, expansion has been quite normal. For much of the nation’s first century and a half, Americans debated not whether the United States should grow, but where and by what means. The idea that borders might shift was a routine feature of statecraft. So why does the idea now seem so strange?” 904/22/26)
https://lawliberty.org/why-america-stopped-annexing-territory/