Not for sale. Greenland shrugs off Trump's new push (www.rfi.fr)

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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."

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Even giving him that much credit is too much

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Trump didn't say anything about buying it. If he is serious (and I hope its his dementia talking) he will invade and claim it in the name of America. He keeps saying Canada needs to be the 51st state too. He just ranting old man screaming at clouds. Elon is in charge pay no mind to what Trump says.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 1 points 41 minutes ago

"Invading" is a curious word to use when the US military is already the main military presence on the island.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

he can invade whatever his sick little peabrain dreams up. I fervently hope that our military will tell him to get fucked and refuse to do it

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Trump will just put tariffs on them …that will show them.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

What's the reason he wants it?

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

He’s a lifelong real estate developer. The man is stupid enough to look at a Mercator projection map and say look at this massive island that’s undeveloped!

It’s reported he offered to trade Puerto Rico for it.

[-] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago

Doesn’t it have lots of oil and other resources?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 14 points 2 days ago

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.