Why Does Trump Want Greenland? Could He Really Seize It?

US President Donald Trump has long said he wants to take control of Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark. He’s now demanding that the Danish government agree to a US takeover of the island and threatening European allies with a new round of punishing trade tariffs if they push back.

The seizure of Venezuela’s president by US special forces on Jan. 3 already showed Trump’s readiness to intervene directly in another nation’s affairs. His increasingly threatening rhetoric over Greenland has caused alarm in the territory’s capital Nuuk.