89% of the population of the Greenland is Inuit. If this doesn't scream Imperialism, I don't know what does.
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Oh there's no plans to make them Americans. They'll be made an unincorporated territory with no voting rights where the constitution doesn't fully apply. Not that it applies much anymore anyway.
If they're lucky they may be able to get naturalized.... Eventually
I'm Canadian, but if Trump offered us 1 million each to join the USA I would still tell them to pound sand.
Especially since his promises are worth jack shit.
Seems like a bad time to emphasize they’re not Danes.
Is it? Seems like a perfect time to say it. They just want to be their own thing. It isn’t like this is a new sentiment.
Greenland cannot defend itself from annexation by America. Annexation by America would result in far less autonomy than Greenlanders currently have. Therefore, in order to maximize their autonomy, they should be emphasizing their relationship with Denmark, and the rest of Europe, to try to persuade European nations to dissuade Trump from raping them.
Instead, this statement gives European nations a good excuse to say that America annexing Greenland is none of their concern.
This is one of the primary arguments used all throughout colonial times. And it’s as bullshit now as it was then. It essentially claims all sovereign states to which another more powerful state exists in opposition, should relinquish the desire for sovereignty.
It should be possible for a people to say “We would like our autonomy” and expect other nations to say in response, “Understood, and we will ally with you to defend such a notion.”
It should be possible for a people to say “We would like our autonomy” and expect other nations to say in response, “Understood, and we will ally with you to defend such a notion.”
It should. But then again, the people of Gaza wanted to not be genocided and the world stood by and let it happen. While I fully agree with your sentiment, the specifics of the world right now might require a less than ideal approach.
Europe should say that, of course. But their weak talk so far suggests they probably won’t defend Greenlanders even if they are a part of Denmark; and if so if Greenland were independent at the moment there’s no reason to think that would somehow give them more of a spine.
I understand and agree with the sentiment that Greenland is a colonized place that should be independent. I also understand that telling colonized people “not right now” and “it’s too dangerous” are the lines the colonizers always use. But that might actually be the case in this moment. The reality is that the US/Israel axis is acting as if the world is theirs. It feels like we really are in 1939, only the US/Israel axis has far more relative power than the Germany/Italy axis ever did.
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In time the people of Greenland will have to make a choice. My knowledge of human nature fears it will be to the highest bidder.
Lol. Human nature.
If you mean "here take this money and give us your country or we will kill you" then yeah.
But I suspect you actually are referring to some weird "humans are greedy! Look! Billionaires!" While ignoring how often we freely help and associate with other humans. For example: on this website.