The United States is continuing negotiations to purchase Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
Greenland is the largest island in the world by area.
It should be noted that Denmark has experience in selling islands to the United States.
During World War I, the United States decided to strengthen its influence in the Caribbean Sea and set its eyes on the territory known as the Danish West Indies.
In mid-1916, the U.S. government offered Denmark 25 million dollars in gold for those islands. Denmark quickly agreed to sell its colony, which brought in little income.
In December of that year, only the metropolitan (Denmark) residents held a referendum on the sale of the islands to the United States. There were 283,670 votes in favor and 158,157 against. The opinion of the colony’s approximately 27,000 inhabitants did not interest anyone at all.
Later, the Danish parliament approved the agreement, and on March 31, 1917, the islands were officially sold to the United States.
Thus, the U.S. acquired an area consisting of three large islands (Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix), as well as numerous smaller islands and reefs, currently known as the American Virgin Islands. This small part of the Caribbean Sea was transformed from a Danish colony into U.S. territory.
By the way, among the Virgin Islands is Little Saint James Island, which covers 31 hectares. In 1997, that island was sold to American financier Jeffrey Epstein for 10.7 million dollars. What the "world elite" did with underage children on Epstein’s island is now known to everyone.
Greenland will also be sold, and its own Epstein will be found there, too.
Asif Shafagatov
