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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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
’ 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,...
A small but consequential set of archival items documents ’ December 14, 1946 conversation with Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen about : a memorandum of conversation drafted in Washington, a Byrnes t...
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 ...
Greenlandic public opinion tilts toward eventual independence but is conditional: recent polls show a majority would vote yes in a hypothetical referendum today while many explicitly reject independen...
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...
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...
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...
The 2009 Act on Greenland Self‑Government (the Self‑Government Act) contains an explicit revenue‑sharing and subsidy‑reduction mechanism: Denmark’s fixed annual block grant (set at DKK ~3.44 billion i...
There is no record in the reporting provided that the White House or the National Security Council issued a press briefing or internal memo after Jan. 19, 2026 that explains why the administration rel...
The United States and NATO operate in Greenland under a Cold War–era defense pact with Denmark that grants the U.S. extensive basing and operating rights while formally recognizing Danish sovereignty,...
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...
President Donald Trump sent a message to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, in which he explicitly linked his anger over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize to a harder posture on Greenland an...
NATO allies have publicly rallied behind Denmark and Greenland, issuing joint statements that only Denmark and Greenland can decide the island’s future, warning against unilateral U.S. action, and mov...