Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Paris on Jan. 8, said President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to seize Greenland is not a good idea.

Russia is "watching this rather dramatic development of the situation very closely," President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson said.

Trump's remarks on Greenland - a largely autonomous Danish territory - have drawn a warning from European leaders. EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has stressed that "we have to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland",

Talk of a takeover of Greenland may seem fanciful. But it wouldn’t be the first time the U.S. was able to procure a piece of the Arctic. The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the sale in 2017,