The US president-elect has refused to rule out military force to take control. This is why it is important – and what Greenlanders think
in the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, on Tuesday in a Trump-branded plane, the US president-elect, Donald Trump, held a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where heto make Greenland part of the US, and threatened to impose “very high” tariffs on Denmark, of which Greenland is an autonomous territory, if it gets in his way.and has described ownership and control of the territory as an “absolute necessity”.
The rapid melting of the island’s huge ice sheets and glaciers could open up oil drilling and mining for essential minerals including copper, lithium, cobalt and nickel. Inuit people are understood to have lived in Greenland since as early as 2,500BCE and it was reached by Norse seafarers in the first millennium CE, who establishment settlements lasting several centuries. Modern colonisation began after the arrival of Hans Egede in 1721, acting with the support of what was then Denmark-Norway. During the second world war, when Denmark was occupied by Germany, Greenland was occupied by the US and was returned to Denmark in 1945.
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