Over Christmas, president-elect Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social site 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.’
Trump’s overture, while highly unwelcome to the Danes, is not a new idea. He made the proposal first in 2019. When Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described the idea as ‘absurd’ and said, ‘Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over. Let’s leave it there’, Trump promptly cancelled his visit to Copenhagen.
Frederiksen has been equally dismissive this time round. But the main response has come from Greenland’s premier, Mute Bourup Egede: ‘Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom’. The struggle for freedom of course does not refer to the United States but to Denmark.
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