Summary
Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte B. Egede stated that Greenlanders want independence and neither want to be Danes nor Americans, following Donald Trump’s comments about acquiring the territory for strategic reasons.
Trump suggested using force or economic pressure, alarming Denmark and Europe.
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen reaffirmed Greenland’s sovereignty, stating “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
The US sees Greenland as key in Arctic geopolitics, given its resources and location, but Egede stressed Greenland’s identity as distinct from Denmark, the US, or NATO politics.
I dont think even some americans want to be americans anymore
Man, this new focus tree is weird. Didn’t realize you could just skip Anschluss with
AustriaCanada and go straight to annexingSudetenlandGreenland.get in line.
Is this literally Trump engaging in a dick measuring contest with Xi and Putin? Like “they’re gonna take Ukraine and Taiwan? NO FAIR I want new land too!!!” What a fucking baby
No. He’s doing this on Putin’s orders.
Greenland is essential for NATO.
Unfortunately Denmark is their best protection from the US. Trump set back their plans by a decade at least.
As an American: Same.
Basically this
Considering that USA does not rule out using force, Greenland should tell them to close their military base on Greenland and send their loud mouths back to their own territory.
The base is probably established using some long-term lease agreement. One would have to read the fine print about ending the agreement, but in principle - I agree.
There is another complexity, though - the words were said by not-yet-president. There might be a difference between a president threatening another land, and a not-yet-president doing so. Currently the president is Biden and will remain so for 9 more days.
Regardless, if the US base in Greenland were to see motions towards ending its lease agreement - especially if Trump keeps saying the things he has - that would be 100% understandable.
When the countries were still on amicable terms, Ukraine leased Russia some naval bases in Crimea, and we know what happened subsequently in 2014 - they were used to stage a takeover of the peninsula.
That’s assuming either Greenland or the US act in good faith. Pieces of paper and law aren’t magic forcefields that prevent something from happening. If Greenland needs to secure itself, expelling threats to their independence from its land isn’t going to hinge on a lease agreement.
All agreements should have a clause in them moving forward that any comments from the USA president or congress memeber about taking over the other parties land is an immediate ending of the agreement with all property in said territory immediately becoming the property of other nation.
How long will an independent Greenland possibly last if the US intends to swallow it up? All it takes is for the American establishment to whip themselves into a bipartisan frenzy over “national security”, then the population follows like sheep, then it’s game over.
speak for yourself.
we can barely take care of ourselves here. Americans with more than one braincell don’t want Greenland. They just want fucking jobs that pay well enough to not be wage slaves.
Greenland won’t declare independence before it is ready to do so, and it’s very likely that when they do it they will do it after or at the same time as re-joining the EU.
The Greenland independence sentiment is of the “we’re our own nation, we should build ourselves up and stand on our own among fellow nations” kind, not the “the Danes are terrible we need to get away from them as fast as possible” one.
Would they even be able to join the EU if they aren’t part of Denmark? They aren’t exactly in Europe. That would be like Canada applying to join. I guess it’s pretty close to Iceland which is in europe but still seems off.
A state doesn’t need to be in Europe to join, it just needs to be European, whatever that means, the treaties don’t say. There’s no geographical limits much less strict ones, it was deliberately left open. The requirements regarding democracy and stability are much more strict and spelled out.
It’d be politically weird to say the least to bar a state that is full of EU citizens from joining the EU. And when it comes to geostrategy not taking them in would be right-out stupid. If you ask some editorialists then even Canada is, in principle, on the table.
Greenland wouldn’t even be the farthest part of the EU:
Outdated, UK is no longer part of the EU, but the point still stands
‘Greenland has WMDs!’ That’s all it takes.
Nor should they.
Nonwhite nations be liked,
Greenland is mostly Inuit.
That’s the point being made here…
Doesn’t change the fact that the Inuits will be going through it for the second time.
No, it doesn’t, of course. I was only speaking to your comment that suggests Greenland’s population is white, because that felt disingenuous to the 90% who are Inuit. Anyhoo, peace.
When asking why is this so important to Trump, it can only be money. Nothing else motivates him. They say there are minerals there but it’s probably oil.
There are ressources there, but they’re not economically feasible to extract.
Trump wants Greenland because Putin asked him to.
They will be reasonable to extract as the globe warms more
Billionaires are surveying like crazy over there
He acts to get more for himself constantly, sure, but that’s not the end goal for him. He doesn’t truly appreciate money, because he’s always had it and he’s always squandered it.
The prime motivator for Trump is ego. Money is simply a vehicle to that goal. Once he takes office, “Trump” and the political entity of “the United States” will be one and the same to him. He wants the world to see him as powerful and uncompromising, and he wants to be treated with that mix of adoration and fear that every violent despot in history has strived for. He sees the US’s powerful military, and wonders why we aren’t crushing the world underfoot, enemies and allies alike. He does not understand the value of mutual relationships where Trump has to make any compromise. He does not understand the value of global stability when there are gains to be made and none of the blowback will likely ever affect him personally. He is legitimately a psychopath, constrained only by the objective reality that he cannot bloviate away.
And the Trump Party (formerly the Republican Party) has decided that the path to ultimate power is to plow away every roadblock to Trump doing whatever he wants, and then they can manipulate and control him from there. The National Socialists thought the same of Hitler.
Look no further than Russia. Everything Trump ever looks at, he is directed to do so by Putin.
