An iceberg melts in eastern Greenland

Is Greenland Even For Sale?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 22, 2019

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War  (Simon & Schuster, 2016), talks about the latest Trump administration interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark, and the fallout between the Prime Minister of Denmark and President Donald Trump.

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