Donald Trump’s renewed discussion around Greenland has once again pushed a long-dormant geopolitical debate back into the global spotlight. But beneath the headline-grabbing rhetoric lies a deeper conflict, one that pits a deal-making worldview against a land system designed to resist ownership, speculation, and foreign control. The language surrounding the proposal echoes the tone of a high-stakes real estate negotiation, scaled up to a continental level. The assumption is familiar: that everything has a price, and that control can be acquired through negotiation. Greenland, however, operates on an entirely different legal and cultural framework, one where land itself is not a commodity. WATCH