From an episode of Future PerfectPresented by Dylan Bird

Interview

Future Perfect: So You Want To Own Greenland?

Dylan Bird is joined by author and political analyst Dr Elizabeth Buchanan to chat about where Donald Trump’s ambition for the US to take over Greenland fits in a very long and fascinating history of geopolitical posturing on the territory, as explored in her new book So You Want To Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump.

“I think [the future for Greenland] is going to be messy an imperfect but I think any nation’s pathway to Independence has been … for any independence to happen it needs to be economically sustainable, and that’s the real issue right now”

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Listen to Future Perfect: So You Want To Own Greenland?23:3029 September 2025