Greenland’s Leader Now Calling for Independence from Denmark
Prime Minister Mute Egede has said a development is “imminent”.
Greenland certainly has been making news recently.
President/President-elect Donald Trump’s tasked his pick for Ambassador to Denmark with persuading the Danes to sell us the resource-rich Arctic land.
The outage left the region dark during a period of with temperatures dropping below -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-33°C).
Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark in his New Year’s speech, marking a significant shift in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.
Egede, a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, emphasized that it is time for Greenland to take the next step and shape its own future.
“The Greenlandic people’s opportunity for independence has been adopted through the provisions of the Self-Government Act, thereby creating a legal basis for how independence can be achieved,” Egede said in a Wednesday speech in honor of the new year.
“A draft constitution for our country has also been prepared,” he said. “Work has already begun with regard to creating the framework for Greenland as an independent state within the possibilities and provisions of the Self-Government Act.”
The leader said a new development for Greenland is “imminent” days after Trump took a second pass at purchasing the land, which sits in the prominent Arctic region.
Well, independence may make soon-to-be Ambassador Ken Howery’s negotiations a bit challenging. But I am willing to step into the role as Ambassador to the newly liberated Greenland, even though it is frostier than I am used to in California.
President Trump was mocked when he first suggested that the United States should purchase Greenland, but as always, he was ahead of the curve. Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede is signaling a move toward independence from Denmark—setting the stage for what could be a… pic.twitter.com/jNdBHmAQCt
— Torsten Prochnow (@TorstenProchnow) January 4, 2025
Interestingly, Egede essentially accused Denmark of colonialism in his remarks.
“The history and current conditions have shown that our cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark has not succeeded in creating full equality,” said Egede, who is a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party.
“It is now time for our country to take the next step,” he added. “Like other countries in the world, we must work to remove the obstacles to cooperation – which we can describe as the shackles of colonialism — and move forward.”
Of course, Egede has no interest in having Trump purchase the land.
Greenland’s government has twice rejected offers by Mr Trump to purchase the island, in 2019 and again last month when Mr Trump said the US needed to buy Greenland “for the purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world”.
Mr Egede insisted at the time Greenland was not for sale. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom,” he said.
The Kingdom of Denmark may come to regret the anti-Trump stance it took the first time Trump proposed the sale. It appears the country is going to lose both the Arctic island and the billions it could have made in the deal.
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Too bad, I have a Norwegian history
I would have liked the deal very much
Don’t despair. The game has just started.
Greenland and its citizens only stand to benefit immensely from a close association with the U.S.
They want independence to auction off those resources to the highest bidder.
We could ship them all the illegals
To do all the snow shoveling Americans won’t fo?
Why?
Denmark did sell us the Danish Virgin Islands. Renamed to the US Virgin Islands.
Greenland independent? Beyond a no-doubt strong and growing sno-cone industry, I don’t believe there is much of an industrial base with which to support the needs of the population. Schools, hospitals, and power stations all cost money to maintain.
“GDP per capita is close to the average for European economies, but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the self-rule government, which in turn employs 10,307 Greenlanders out of 25,620 currently in employment (2015).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Greenland
So in short, an Independant Greenalnd would immediately have to auction off its mineral rights, as it has an unsustainably high number of useless adjuncts on the payroll
Emperors Xi of China enters with a big bag o’cash
Trump should tell the Danes: ” Take the money because I’m not going to offer it a second time. Understand?”
The picture of the Trump tower doesn’t look quite right. We live in the real one, and the purpose of the cuts on the sides is to provide windows on a second wall, for the one bedroom units on the ends.
That’s fine — it’s cheaper for the USG to just take it over as a de facto client state.
Funny a woman I met while walking last night same the same thing, but after a little discussion, it turned out that while permanent and exclusive rights were out, rental options turned out to be available…
Have you not heard the saying, “If it flies, floats or f/k it’s cheaper to rent.”
Greenland can’t afford to go it alone. They’ll look for a protector, soon enough.
The “colonialism” angle is quite funny. No one lived there before it was discovered by the Vikings. The people of Greenland are descendants of people from Denmark. The US needs to cut a deal or buy Greenland to prevent the chicoms from getting their “belt and road” hooks into Greenland.
I believe the Dorset people and Thule people (ancestors of the Inuit) had reached northwestern Greenland prior to the Norse settlement of the southwestern part of the island.
For americans excited about this, be careful what you hope for, you just might get it. Greenland could become like puerto rico, one of those territorial dependencies that always has new problems to solve. There might or might not be mineral assets that are commercially viable, that hasn’t been proven. Even in that case, environmental issues have kept much of alaska’s resources undeveloped.
“ Greenland could become like puerto rico,..
Sir, I hate to correct you but I must take issue with your statement.
I believe you meant to say WOULD, not could…
However, the idea is (as with Puerto Rico), not so much to own Greenland, but ‘Dog-in-the-manger’ style to keep anyone else from having it.
It is well past time that a free Greenland throw off the untenable yoke of crushing Danish oppression and come into its own. Fancy pastries and chewing tobacco don’t make the Danes anything special.
Greenland has roughly the same geographical position to Maine as Alaska does to Washington state. We bought Alaska in 1867. What’s taking so long on Greenland.😊
“Prime Minister Mute Egede has said a development is “imminent”.”
Two hundred years of silence, then imminent revolt.
The guy’s not even President yet.
We sold them Sondrestrom Air Force Base for something like 15 cents, so they owe us some favors.
Greenland goes independent, borrows billions from China, defaults and has Chinese as a first language.
This would get Greenland out of the U.U. and give them the freedom to work with the rest of the world without a Master.
Look on the bright side if we buy it. If global warming is true, then all that ice will melt, and we’ll discover Greenland is made of gold?
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