WI the USA buys Greenland from Denmark instead of the Virgin Islands

Through whatever you want to handwave, at the time the Virgin Islands goes through, the USA buys the really big cold island instead of the small tropical ones. Does this matter?
 

Lusitania

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Sorry but handwaving aside the US Congress would not approve the purchase of ice. There was strategic value in buying Alaska and Danish Virgin Islands but huge piece of Ice. There was no perceived value strategic or economic for the purchase to even be considered not at same time the US purchase US Virgin Islands.
 
Through whatever you want to handwave, at the time the Virgin Islands goes through, the USA buys the really big cold island instead of the small tropical ones. Does this matter?

And easier POD would have been a Nazi victory in Europe. Nazis occupying Denmark means that Greenland and probably Iceland would most likely be US occupied indefinitely for strategic purposes against the Nazis and with the fact that Denmark is under the Nazi grip.
 
The Virgin Islands was a colony that Denmark wanted to get rid off. Greenland a part of Norse lands of old though when the Danes showed up no more Norse around - not up for sale.
 
The Virgin Islands was a colony that Denmark wanted to get rid off. Greenland a part of Norse lands of old though when the Danes showed up no more Norse around - not up for sale.

Then have the Nazis win in Europe. With Denmark under Hitler's grip, the US occupation of Greenland would be indefinite. No sale needed.
 

Lusitania

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Then have the Nazis win in Europe. With Denmark under Hitler's grip, the US occupation of Greenland would be indefinite. No sale needed.
Not do fast, the US occupied Iceland as a way to both counter Nazi and to guarantee Allied ships able to sail to Soviet arrival ports.

Occupy and annex are two different things, the “savior” of the world who is campaigning against colonialism cannot become an imperial colonizer itself in the 2nd half of the 20th century.

It would of granted both Iceland and Greenland independence with treaties in place to maintain US bases in the two islands. No annexation
 
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