President Trump has repeatedly expressed a purpose for the USA to take possession of Greenland. Trump has stated it’s important to the long-term nationwide safety pursuits of America. Tensions are high between Trump and the leader of Denmark.
Simply this week, the Danish member of the European Parliament Anders Vistisen, directing his feedback to President Trump about Greenland, stated: “Greenland has been a part of the Danish Kingdom for 800 years,” and “shouldn’t be on the market.” “Let me put it in phrases you may perceive: Mr. Trump. F*** off.”
“Mr. Trump, fuck off.”
Anders Vistisen, Danish member of the European Parliament. https://t.co/Gqx1BmevET
— Coverage Tensor (@policytensor) January 25, 2025
Politicians have stated it’s impossible. The media has dismissed it as impossible. The Prime Minister of Denmark, which nonetheless owns Greenland as one in every of its colonies, reportedly rebuffed Trump on a cellphone name on January fifteenth the place she informed Trump it was unimaginable as a result of the 179-member Danish parliament has stated the “island is not for sale.”
However authorized specialists say there’s one other manner that doesn’t require a sale of the island: it merely requires a vote of the folks. And from studying from the soiled methods of Democrats to rig elections with overseas voters, the USA may use the identical tactic to separate Greenland from Denmark and make it an impartial nation by merely bringing within the voters essential to win the election.
And now even Danish politician Rasmus Jarlov admits that the USA may, in keeping with treaties between the 2 international locations, scale up the bottom any time Washington needs to:
And I write it as a result of I get the impression that the folks behind the thought of taking Greenland from Denmark have a bizarre concept that they only should rattle their sabers a bit of bit to get their will. You’ll be able to overlook that. No threats of tariffs and even invasion or anything…
— Rasmus Jarlov (@RasmusJarlov) January 25, 2025
Polling suggests 57.4% of Greenland’s folks help President Trump’s coverage and need to be a part of the USA.
Greenland is a small arctic dependency of Denmark. There are solely 56,865 folks dwelling in the complete nation. That is about the identical dimension as a small midwest metropolis in America, akin to Mankato, Minnesota or Manhattan, Kansas. Consultants suppose Greenland has an estimated 31.4 billion barrels of oil, virtually 150% the reserves of Texas, value about $2.5 trillion. Greenland additionally has an estimated $150 billion in uncommon earth minerals.
There are at present three requirements for voters in Greenland: 1) be over the age of 18, 2) be a Danish citizen, and three) be a everlasting resident of Greenland.
To change into a Danish citizen, you need to fulfill a greater diversity of necessities, together with: Everlasting residence: dwelling within the nation for as much as 9 years. Language proficiency: You should be proficient in Danish or English. Prison document: a clear felony document. Monetary stability: financially self-sufficient and never demanding state welfare. Employment: Absolutely employed for not less than three years and 6 months throughout the final 4 years. Citizenship check: In a position to move the Denmark Citizenship Take a look at. Municipal ceremony: Participation in a municipal structure ceremony. Declaration of allegiance: Making a declaration of allegiance and loyalty. Certificates of excellent conduct: Should acquire a certificates of excellent conduct from one’s house nation or some other international locations the place the particular person has lived.
Immigration specialists recommend that President Trump may merely broaden the prevailing American base, Pituffik, and broaden it by 60,000 troopers and their households and require that they keep there for the subsequent decade. This effort would offer the voting base to drive a Danish referendum to take over the nation. People will be twin residents of each the USA and Denmark, a change that Denmark made solely in 2015 allowing twin citizenship.
In Greenland, one can vote in native elections in the event you aren’t a Danish citizen, so long as you will have been a everlasting resident for 3 years prior. Which could imply {that a} nationwide referendum on whether or not to remain subjected to Denmark is open to all, relatively than simply those that are Danish residents.
Denmark retains taxes in Greenland excessive: usually between 42-44%, whereas in the USA federal tax charges are 10-37% on the highest. If the USA had been to take management of Greenland, its residents would doubtless face a major tax reduce and important enhance in home funding, half of what’s main many in Greenland to celebrate the potential of becoming Americans.
It would take years, however by bringing within the voter base within the type of US troopers into Greenland, Trump may drive a referendum on independence and take Greenland away from Denmark and make it impartial inside a decade. This effort could be expensive and the Danish authorities could be doubtless to withstand in quite a lot of authorized and presumably unlawful methods, however it might accomplish the Trump agenda with brute drive.
It will additionally mirror reported efforts by far-left globalists like George Soros who instituted ‘shade revolutions’ in goal international locations to get the ‘regime change’ desired, which means {that a} overseas energy or curiosity was capable of internally change the federal government to get yet another compliant to its agenda. Boston Faculty Educational Lindsey O’Rourke in her 2021 e-book “Covert Regime Change” claims the U.S. engaged on this apply 64 instances throughout the Chilly Warfare between 1947-1989. Soros has been accused of trying not less than 10 ‘color revolutions’ since 1989, a few of them profitable.
Understanding that there are these choices can also empower Trump’s negotiating place with Danish authorities, making certain that it doesn’t matter what, Trump has the proverbial ‘trump’ card.
Nonetheless these similar Danish politicians have been fairly blustery about their opposition to Donald Trump’s proposed annexation of Greenland.
And I write it as a result of I get the impression that the folks behind the thought of taking Greenland from Denmark have a bizarre concept that they only should rattle their sabers a bit of bit to get their will. You’ll be able to overlook that. No threats of tariffs and even invasion or anything…
— Rasmus Jarlov (@RasmusJarlov) January 25, 2025
