"Buying Greenland was more than a threat to NATO, it was a threat to make American empire visible again. After all, America has yet to ask the Tlingit—or any of the other Indigenous people under its rule—if they want to be American in a way that allows for the answer to be no."
Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into the present, with or without Kalaallit Nunaat. Buying Greenland was more than a threat to NATO, it was a threat to make American empire visible again.
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