There's a certain kind of thought experiment that makes people squint—half in disbelief, half in curiosity. It's the kind of idea that seems preposterous at first glance, but when you sit with it long enough, begins to unravel into something unsettlingly plausible. What if America bought Greenland? And annexed Canada?
This book is not a forecast. It is not prophecy. It is a hypothesis machine.
In 1946, the United States government offered Denmark $100 million in gold for Greenland. The deal didn't go through. In 2019, the idea resurfaced when a sitting American president publicly expressed interest in buying the island.