Greenland to buy
Greenland, the end of the 10th century. The first Scandinavian explorers and settlers arrived on the island. But by the 15th century these settlements had been abandoned and the original Inuit remained. But in 1721, the missionary Hans Egede organized an expedition and the settlers began to settle in the area of the current city of Nuuk. Since then, Greenland has been the territory of Denmark, although it was officially annexed to the kingdom in 1953. In 1979, it obtained the status of autonomous territory through a referendum, and in 2009 another referendum granted it more powers. The Danish Government had recently stated that the Greenlandic people themselves would determine their own future. In other words, it has recognized the right to self-determination for the 56,000 inhabitants of the island – despite insisting that it is the will of the Danes to remain within the kingdom.
But on the road to Greenland another important actor appeared a long time ago: The United States of America. Trump’s intention to buy Greenland is not new. In 1867, when the United States bought Alaska from Russia, Washington politicians and intellectuals demanded that it be made the same with the largest island in the world.
In 1946, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes extended another offer: they were willing to pay $100 million for the island in gold bars.
But they would not have been able to crush Greenland until World War II. With Denmark occupied by the Germans, the US army occupied Greenland. In the words of Mark Jacobsen, a member of the Royal Danish Defence School, “at first, the occupation of Greenland was almost an invitation from Denmark because of the Nazi threat, but at the end of the war Denmark said that the threat was over and that they could withdraw.” Of course, the United States did not withdraw, and under the pretext of the Soviet threat, they have continued for decades.
In 1946, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes extended another offer: they were willing to pay $100 million in gold bars for the island. The Danish government refused. But in 1951, seeing that the U.S. military had no intention of leaving the island, he had to surrender and sign an agreement to regulate the U.S. presence.
Greenland was then a strategic military zone. Today, as the ice that occupied 80% of the island recedes, new trade routes are opening up by sea and, on land, natural resources such as iron and uranium can be more easily exploited. After all, they want Greenland to squeeze out the climate change they deny.
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