The weak business case for Trump acquiring Greenland: a $1 trillion price tag and few returns for two decades

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5. His billionaire backers include many companies that would take huge hits in Europe if this happens

Right now $1.5-$1.8 trillion in goods and services flow between the US and Europe every year. There is already plenty of talk on the continent about making American companies, particularly on the technology side, pay a price for torpedoing NATO (which would inevitably happen if Trump invades Greenland). The sentiment is already there to impose new rules on social media and AI. Invade Greenland and the EU would essentially reorient itself away from America for good. Any way you look at this situation, America has far more, exponentially more, to lose in Greenland than to gain.