"U.S. Purchase of Greenland?" - An Idea Sparking Both Ridicule and Praise

Any clear-thinking open-minded critique of President Trump’s recently shared thoughts about considering a future U.S. attempted purchase of Greenland, might benefit from a review of the following snapshots from world history:


Purchase of Alaska: On October 18, 1867, the Russian flag was lowered for the last time over Alaska. A few months earlier, the U.S. Senate had ratified Secretary of State Seward’s purchase of the Alaska territory from Russia. America paid $7.2 million for the territory, a price of two cents an acre. 
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

Reference 2: 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarlin/2019/08/21/could-greenland-be-the-new-alaska/#5e9b0c5b25e1

The Louisiana Purchase: The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile. 
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase

Acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines: The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was a treaty signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish–American War. In the treaty, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba (granting Cuba its independence), and ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States for the sum of $20 million. 

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1898%E2%80%931946)

Greenland: Greenland, the world’s largest island, is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

                                                               ---William James Moore