Pay for value works

TIL week. This one is a genuine surprise. In 1916 we BOUGHT the Virgin Islands from DENMARK.

We’ve never had any trouble from the Virgin Islands. Pay for value usually works. Stealing territory by armed conquest or Color Revolution never works.

I hadn’t thought much about those islands, but if asked I would have guessed we stole them from Britain, maybe as a result of 1812.

I never knew or guessed that Denmark had any colonies in the south. I thought Greenland was their only colony. Everyone else had a piece of the Caribbean, but not Denmark. Wrong!