US envoy: Greenland 'was not on a map' until Trump 'put it on a map'

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6. I'm sure the people of Greenland knew they were on the map,

as did the government of NATO member Denmark, of which Greenland is a self-governing territory. But the map that interests Piggy is the Mercator map, a flat projection of the spherical Earth, that shows Greenland as much larger than it really is. Piggy is interested only in "owning" a lot of property, and Greenland looks very large on that flat map. Piggy would love to have that apparently enormous hunk of real estate indicated as US territory, and therefore "his," on that inaccurate map that he'd proudly display everywhere.

Greenland has always been on all maps, and the US has never ignored Greenland. We have had a military base there, Pituffik, formerly called Thule, since 1951, under an agreement that allows the US to operate it as long as both Denmark and the US are members of NATO. But of course Piggy wants out of NATO, which might mean that Denmark could take over and close Pituffik and kick out US personnel. The only reason Greenland is now "on the map" that it was never not on, is that Trump is trying to take it away from Denmark. Landry is not helping the situation a bit, either.