The history of Greenland is marked by Denmark’s domination of the island since 1721 and is inextricably linked to themes of foreign control and cultural subjugation.

President-elect Donald Trump is repeating a call he made during his first term — for the U.S. to buy Greenland. He has even invited his social media followers to express their support for the idea via a poll posted to his account on Wednesday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to take Greenland from Denmark. Peskov said the Arctic was in Russia's "sphere of national and strategic interests and it is interested in peace and stability there".

Greenland’s prime minister said he will seek a closer relationship with the US, highlighting the Arctic island’s push for independence amid renewed interest from Donald Trump.

Trump’s talk of acquiring the island has raised the profile of Greenland, but it has also prompted some anxieties

President-elect Trump's talk of Canada as a "51st state" and annexing Greenland registered among national-security crowds as an "Oh, boy!" moment. Obnoxious, enticing, familiar. Why it matters: The darlings of Trump's current foreign policy fixation boast Arctic utility at a time when the icy region is heating up.

Donald Trump added a strange sentence into his pre-Christmas announcement of Ken Howery as US ambassador to Denmark. Alongside other recent comments about taking over the Panama Canal and welcoming Canada as his country’s fifty-first state,