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   In fact, the US has made multiple formal offers to purchase it over the last   
   160 years.   
      
   Step 1: Historical Purchase Attempts   
      
   The idea of buying Greenland has been a recurring goal for several US   
   administrations:   
      
   1867: Secretary of State William Seward (who bought Alaska) officially   
   explored the purchase of Greenland and Iceland.   
      
   1946: President Harry Truman offered Denmark $100 million in gold to buy the   
   island outright.   
      
   2019: President Trump publicly confirmed his interest, calling it a "large   
   real estate deal."   
      
   2025-2026: Recently, the Trump administration has designated the acquisition   
   of Greenland as a "national security priority" and introduced the "Make   
   Greenland Great Again Act" to authorize formal negotiations.   
      
   Step 2: Why COFA is the "Diplomatic" Alternative   
      
   As of early 2026, many US officials are discussing a Compact of Free   
   Association (COFA) as a more realistic and diplomatic route than a direct sale   
   or annexation.   
      
   Feature - Direct Purchase / Annexation - Compact of Free Association (COFA)   
      
   Sovereignty - Greenland becomes a US Territory/State. - Greenland is an   
   Independent Nation.   
      
   Defense - Fully managed by the US military. - The US provides defense in   
   exchange for exclusive access.   
      
   Financials - US pays a "one-time" or "structured" price. - US provides annual   
   grants and aid packages.   
      
   Local Government - Subject to US Federal Law. - Fully self-governed by   
   Greenlanders.   
      
   The COFA model is considered more diplomatic because it respects Greenland's   
   desire for independence from Denmark while still giving the US what it really   
   wants: strategic denial (the power to keep China and Russia out) and access to   
   Greenland's vast mineral resources.   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be   
   received positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-   
   night comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.   
   The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very existence of George W. Bush."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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