ok firstpost, reminder, dane here.
sigh
To the point of the thread, the Greenland population is apparently divided on the subject :
as far as i understand, the division isn't really actually there. this is qualitative individual interviews on news television trying to present a varied debate for balance, and the pro-trump guy is an infamous kook.
this is a clearer picture.
https://www.reuters.com/world/green...mid-trump-bid-take-over-territory-2025-01-08/ not a lot of population stats (i still can't find any), but basically the whole thing can be boiled down to this:
Greenland's Finance Minister Erik Jensen repeated that Greenland is not for sale. "Our wish is to become independent one day. But our ambition is not to go from being governed by one country to another."
for a short summary of anyone curious: most greenlanders want independence (64%-67%). they don't want to be subservient to another colonial empire. they don't want to be a territory, neither of denmark nor the states. a large part temporarily support the current pseudo-self-governing status quo under denmark as a practical compromise because of economic dependency. they also don't really mind the economic options and support and such, they just want self-deliberation. this is the reason they're still a part of the kingdom. most people playing with the idea of a us takeover think they, as colonized natives, will have a better position to better their self-determination under us annexation. and you can all imagine how much internal sympathy that has, noting the us history with its own natives and puerto rico.
i'm free to be corrected as to actual stats, but i'll reiterate that "unsure" under a "yes/no/unsure" option as to a us takeover would have a huge overlap with "i think the usa can better help us not being part of any nation whatsoever at all".
i also support whatever the greenlanders want. if there is wide support for this (and this is unlikely), they deserve to choose their own fate, even if i think becoming a territory of natives under the us has some... precedent, let's say, as to whether it's a good idea. but it's up to them.
i'll remain ominously watching the thread for probably another big post later, idk man. it actually surprises me how off people are about this; who to ask about it, greenland's current degree of & dependency on american military, the zeitgeist of greenlanders, etc
and sidenote,
online, some americans talking about greenland like this has been quite the madness (similarly so is the paternalistic position of some danes); greenland is not a trading card or a mineral lootbox, it's a nation of people with a colonial history. sympathetic jokes about the ridiculousness of the situation are usually fine, and we can talk pragmatics as to whether it's possible through some lens of political 'realism', that is all fine and important. but please remember we're talking about
the usa buying out a territory of a native american colonized people, and often discussed as an exchange with a european power.