cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29934421
Trump offered to buy the vast Danish territory during his first term in office – receiving an abrupt refusal – and he revived his push over the weekend when naming his ambassador to Copenhagen for his incoming administration.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede quickly sought to quash any chance of a deal. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” Mute Egede said in a statement.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is an autonomous Danish territory with its own parliament, about 55,000 inhabitants, and a small pro-independence movement. It relies on Denmark to fund more than half of its public budget.
Trump on Sunday posted that “for purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
Greenland is in a strategic part of the Arctic Circle, which is gaining more attention as it is seeing more shipping activity and people are finding more natural resources. The idea would be to turn it into a second Alaska in terms of greater military presence.
You’re overthinking it.
In any case, The USA already controls Greenland in every way that matters from a strategic perspective, and has since the 40s.
Because of NATO, something that Trump doesn’t seem interested in continuing being in.
Also, I can see Trump trying to build a legacy through a land deal.