Le opinioni dei groenlandesi sulle avances di Trump “Il nostro Paese è nostro”

>“Our country is ours – it’s not for sale. Trump says a lot of things that aren’t very serious, but now it’s become quite scary. Seeing a Boeing 757 with ‘Trump’ written on it at Nuuk airport [when Trump Jr visited on Tuesday], I couldn’t believe what was happening. It was a very surreal experience.

>“Talk of annexing us is both terrifying and ridiculous. If he used military force, that would mean going to war with the rest of Nato, and implementing sanctions and tariffs on Denmark, and therefore the rest of the EU as well.

>“My fear is that he could create the same kind of division here that he has in the US. We’re already seeing people wearing Maga caps. And I worry they’ll start rolling out a propaganda campaign, and start trying to influence our elections and how we run our country.

>“With a lot of recent discussion about a potential independence referendum in Greenland, it would be very weird if we agreed to let ourselves be sold to another country.” Ole Hjorth, 27-year-old air traffic controller from Nuuk.

>“I absolutely condemn the threat of seizing Greenland by force.

>“I’m half Inuit. For now, there’s a conversation running over the heads of Inuit people. There’s a lot of high-ranking people talking *about* Greenland, and the people of Greenland, as an object, as property, as something that can be bought. It’s taking away our voice and dehumanising us.

>“We saw this last time, in 2019, with Trump talking about a big ‘real estate deal’.

>“I have four children. This whole situation is leading to questions, as any parent thinks about, of where the best place for them to grow up is.

>“It’s great that our welfare state, which supports ordinary people, is built on the principles of Denmark. But we need to figure out our own path – on healthcare, schools, childcare and so on – and do this at our own pace. This needs to be *our* nation, not part of someone else’s.” Patrick Abrahamsen, a 45-year-old who works in search and rescue in Nuuk.

>We are ready to deal and collaborate with the US directly and secede from Denmark. No, we don’t want to be part of the US, but we don’t want to be part of Denmark either.

Who will subsidize their social-security? Denmark gives them 570M a year.

With how little the population is there, it wouldn’t really take much for the US to make every single resident a multi millionaire. How many millions would it take for you to ok selling your country? Shit give me 3 million dollars and I will go buy a retirement home somewhere in Southern Europe right now and forget all about my country!

Greenland and Canada should join the EU. Maybe cut Hungary off the other side.

I never really understood the Greenlandic independence movement. They want to be independent of Denmark, but that means they’d lose the block grant and they’d just slide into mass poverty. So they’d just have to grant some country rights to their natural resources, but they don’t want to do that. And they also don’t want an American presence.

Do they want independence but also free money from Denmark and the ability to easily import everything from the EU?

My “hot take”. 

Trump will use the Ukraine War to try to negotiate taking Greenland. IE – we will only end the war on terms favourable to Ukraine if Europe rewards us with Greenland.