Greenland Eyes Benefits in Trump’s Proposed Land Grab
- Trump threats play into push for independence from Denmark
- Island’s growing geopolitical role makes it a power broker
Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland has put the world’s largest island in an unexpected position of power.
While Trump’s 2019 bid for the Arctic territory was dismissed as little more than a joke, the president-elect’s timing is better this time around — Greenlanders are intensifying their push for independence from Denmark. Within the next three months, they will hold a general election that will take the temperature of that relationship.
