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The United States' proposal to control Greenland and the response from Denmark and Greenland.
The Senate has moved to legally bar U.S. military and diplomatic funds from being used to blockade, occupy, annex or otherwise assert control over the sovereign territory of any NATO member — legislat...
Multiple recent polls show Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose becoming part of the United States while many Americans likewise reject U.S. annexation or the use of force to acquire Greenland; specific...
The United States does not own Greenland; the island is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and remains under Danish sovereignty . Recent rhetoric from the Trump White House seeking ...
The Greenland birth-control programme was a state-directed, decades-long effort largely run by Danish health authorities that, from the mid-1960s through the 1970s and into the 1980s and early 1990s, ...
A complete, line-by-line independent fact-check of ’s Davos speech is possible in principle but requires time, primary data and document-by-document sourcing; existing reputable fact-checkers already ...
The 2004 Igaliku update formally amended the 1951 U.S.–Denmark Defense of Greenland agreement to bring Greenland’s Home Rule (later self‑government) institutions into the defence dialogue, add joint p...
Yes — Denmark has sold territory to the United States in the past: Copenhagen transferred the Danish West Indies (today’s U.S. Virgin Islands) to Washington in 1917 in a transaction shaped by strategi...
Greenland broadly aspires to eventual independence: major Greenlandic parties and laws enshrine a right to self‑determination, and opinion polls have shown majority support for independence in princip...
The line “we will remember” in ’s Davos speech was delivered as a pointed afterword to a demand about and a broader set of grievances aimed at , and , framed as a choice: agree with the or face conseq...
There is no verified, coordinated European decision to close all U.S. airbases in Europe; what exists in public reporting is a mix of rhetoric, proposals in think‑pieces, and viral claims — some debun...
and responded to proposals to acquire Greenland with swift, coordinated political rejection — repeatedly declaring “” and moving to deepen diplomatic, parliamentary and military coordination with alli...
Yes: multiple news outlets report that President Donald Trump sent a written message to Norway’s prime minister that explicitly tied his push to acquire Greenland to being denied the Nobel Peace Prize...
’ calls for reconciliation with stem from a long colonial history, policies of cultural assimilation and bodily intrusion, and persistent that many view as neocolonial; specific scandals — to Denmark,...
President Donald Trump did send a written message to Norway’s prime minister that directly referenced Greenland and demanded U.S. control; Norway released the exchange — which media outlets variously ...
A 50% cut in the Danish block grant would produce an immediate fiscal hole equivalent to roughly one-quarter of Greenland’s current public revenues—because the grant supplies about 50–51% of governmen...
By late 2025 a trio of controversies—the staggered release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, the Trump administration’s military action and capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, and talk of tariffs tied...
ic political institutions have historically defended autonomy while accommodating allied military presence under Danish-led agreements, keeping defence and foreign policy largely in Danish hands . Dur...
Danish and ic officials have framed proposal to as a diplomatic problem to be managed, but one bounded by an unequivocal red line: sovereignty is not for sale or negotiable. and have engaged in trilat...
ic political parties have uniformly rejected any effort to take control of the island and framed Washington’s moves as an affront to , even as they differ on tactics and the pace of ; party leaders an...
Danish and ic leaders have publicly and forcefully rejected proposals that imply transfer of sovereignty or sale of Greenland, while signalling willingness to discuss security, investment and expanded...