US EditionCNN: Worried Greenlanders fear for future as Trump threatens US takeover
Over 85% of Greenlanders oppose U.S. takeover plans, citing concerns over sovereignty, cultural identity, and fears of privatization amid strategic and resource interests.
- U.S. President Donald Trump publicly demanded to take over Greenland, but Greenlanders firmly rejected this with repeated `No` answers and the stance `Greenland is for the Greenland people`.
- Greenland's status as a self-governing territory of Denmark with a colonial history complicates sovereignty, while polling last year showed over 85% favor independence.
- Mia Chemnitz argues outsiders focus on land and resources while Greenlanders stress society and family, and Ludvig Petersen warned residents fear U.S. control would privatize health care and education.
- Residents asked whether allies like the European Union and NATO would defend Greenland and expressed fear, with some convinced a takeover could happen while others said Trump is oblivious to realities.
- Climate change has disrupted traditional seal hunting, forcing former hunters like a local taxi driver, born in northern Greenland, to rely on city jobs and altering ties to the Greenlandic Arctic environment.
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NUUK, GREENLAND — President Donald Trump and his top aides’ preferred path to the U.S. taking ownership of Greenland is incentivizing people there to vote in a referendum to align with the United States, according to two people familiar with his thinking and granted anonymity to speak candidly. But his bombast about needing to own the island for “psychological” reasons and refusal to rule out a military strike to seize land belonging to Denmark,…
Greenland is priceless. A purchase is not negotiable under international law, and the inhabitants of the island do not want to know about it. Why does US President Donald Trump still speak of a takeover?
"This is the first time I've thought to myself: Are we getting Americans here?" says Rikke Østergaard, a doctoral student at Ilisimatusarfik – the University of Greenland – and a member of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative IV, in an interview with Heimildin. US President Donald Trump has once again declared that the United States needs to get over Greenland, but he did the same...
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