Denmark colonized Greenland and subjugated the native people in 1721.
In our modern time most Danes feel this was wrong, and for decades there has been a strong political backing for initiatives helping the 57,000 Greenlanders, who receive $673 million per year from Denmark.
Should the people of Greenland choose full independence, the Danish parliament would support their decision.
What we will not support is Trump exploiting a proud native people whom we consider our friends.
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Trump is undeniably bad news for Greenland, but if there have been decades of "strong political backing" in Denmark to help Greenlanders, its hard to understand why the racist parent psychological tests were only banned last year, Danish authorities are still taking newborn babies like Aviaja-Luuna from they're moms despite the ban, the forced sterilization of Greenlandic women and girls continued until a couple of decades ago, and no body investigated this until a couple of years ago
@randahl Actually... the other day I've seen a video where some american nutjob asked, who would raise their weapons to defend Greenland.
My first thought was: "I would." (for a free Europe and all, but that's not the point)
@randahl
Beautifully said.
@randahl I mean Americains have already soiled the soil of native Greenlander land with nuclear contamination.
@randahl I am a Marine and I am fucking embarrassed, Trump is just a deranged clown and I wish he would be thrown in prison. If he would drop dead today it might help but maybe Vance etc.. are just as bad. Fuck these guys, remove them and prosecute them.
@randahl not sure Greenlanders consider Danes friends, given how much child abduction has been going on...
@randahl I dream of Greenland getting independence and then becoming part of EU 😄
@randahl As you are committed to impartial reporting, when calculating the cost of Greenland to the Danish budget, have you included cryolite mining, which over the lifetime of this mine is estimated to have generated the equivalent of 400 billion Danish kroner (nearly 54 billion euros) for the company responsible for its extraction and the Danish state?
This is not whataboutism on my part, it is a sincere question.
@bellule No, I have not included any profits the Danish state may have had, just like I have not included the vast military expenses paid by Denmark to keep Greenland safe.
The number I am mentioning is the so-called “bloktilskud” which is a sum of money that is transferred from Denmark to Greenland every year to support their public sector. This money is paid out of the Danish state budget, so in essence, Danish tax payers help lowering the taxes in Greenland.
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Okay, I understand, and no controversy. One of the ambiguities of the situation stems from the feeling of colonisation among the native Greenlanders. Denmark has not always treated them humanely, and this fuels resentment. These are situations we are familiar with in France with our ‘overseas territories’.
It's an easy means of agitprop for US emissaries to use and drive a wedge between Greenland and Denmark. ⤵️
@randahl Canada's head of state, who was born in the Arctic and speaks Inuktitut, will be visiting #Greenland next month along with the foreign minister to open the new consulate.
@rjohnston thank you for this info.
Ironically, the advances of Trump and his billionaire patrons is that Greenland is in a much more precarious position as an independent nation, unless they were embedded in other alliances, such as NATO or the EU.
The project of Trump’s patrons, though is the destruction of all international alliances, as well as functioning states to be replaced by their personal totalitarian fiefdoms, the “network state”.
They should immediately embark on a public education program with multiple media types to teach how the US has treated its own indigenous population.
That alone would dissuade anyone from ever wanting to be colonized by the US, much less by white nationalist christo-fascist magats.
@randahl some of us (U.S.) wholeheartedly agree with our friends in Denmark.
"Should the proud Greenlanders choose to toss out $11,800 per person per year to have their pride, we'll let them have their pride!
We need a new subway, anyway."
I suspect that Denmark's possession is safe.
And the government of Danemark should remind the world about this and shame the United States of America for the way it treated and treats its native population.
@randahl - or indeed attacking said native people with military force. Feels like that's worth mentioning, too, at this point.
