"To increase defense, security and economic cooperation," WTF?!?! The Orange Shit Stain is threatening a trade war with the EU, which includes Denmark, and he wants to bust up NATO. Liar.
There is potentially an immense amount of rare earth minerals buried under one of the largest supplies of freshwater. And it’s close to the arctic which would make it convenient location for refineries with arctic oil and gas.
People think there is gas and oil under Greenland. And because of global warming it becomes much easier to extract it. Also Trump probably wants be closer to Moscow.
It's a very large secluded island that's about to get livable and he's a real estate guy, a bad one but still. He's not playing chess, he's trying to buy land to setup billionaire playlands with zero poors. Don't really want to live in the country filled with poors you just fucked up, that would be insane.
A lot of those until the combined effort of Europe, the US and Russia stopped him.
I don't know, but when the coming leader of the nation with the largest military in the world and the second most nukes is throwing wild conquest fantasies around, some about allies, I can't help but get a little bit nervous.
The US annexing Greenland is all it would take? How so? I'm asking because I'm woefully undereducated in these matters. Couldn't we form our own NATO, without the US but with blackjack and universal health care?
How much do native Greenlanders like being governed by Denmark, would they conceivably be better off as US citizens? Obviously self governance is best but could they defend their own territory in that case. I think there's a case to be made for this idea and few Americans regret having Alaska as part of the union.
Last time this idea was brought up, the Danish response was clear: Denmark can't sell Greenland because it's not ours to sell. The Greenlanders rejected the offer.
There's been decades of collaboration between Denmark and Greenland on establishing autonomy and independence of Greenland. It appears they are not interested in becoming integrated into a different state, but would rather continue that process.
Lets see here.... giving up social nets and universal healthcare, adopting policies that are destroying their home, very likely never be granted statehood, thus have little say in federal politics....
Im going to go with a strong no. They arent better off as US citizens.