Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressed Greenland’s strategic location in the Arctic and its natural wealth of critical minerals.

When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.

Greenland Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede speaks at a press conference during the opening of the European Commission's new office in Nuuk, Greenland, March 15, 2024. Ritzau Scanpix/Leiff Josefsen via REUTERS/File Photo COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenland's leader will meet the Danish king in Copenhagen on Wednesday,