There is no reason the USA shouldn’t take Greenland. Hell, Minnesota has enough SOMALIS to occupy Greenland. At least then they might serve some useful purpose for something more than child care scams.
US President Donald Trump has warned that Washington could obtain Greenland the “hard way,” saying he would not allow the strategic North Atlantic island to fall prey to Russia or China. The Kingdom of Denmark, which holds sovereignty over Greenland, has opposed the US push to acquire the island.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump said that the US is “going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not,” arguing that “Russia or China will take over Greenland” if Washington does not act. “I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,” he stressed, without elaborating on how far he was ready to go. Trump, who has acknowledged that a military option is on the table, also did not rule out paying Greenlanders when asked about compensating residents.
Greenland is an autonomous Danish territory with a population of less than 57,000 despite being larger than Mexico, and the US already has a military presence there.
Demographics matter, people. Demographics have always mattered. Nobody gives a quantum fragment of an airborne rodent’s backside that a few Danes were there first.
Ask an American Indian how much the US government cares about that.