U.S. President Donald Trump says his country needs Greenland for national security. That has Greenlanders worried about their own national security.
Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they’re tired of being used as geopolitical chess pieces by powerful people in faraway capitals.
“We want to say loud and clear that there’s no such thing as a better colonizer,” said Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a former member of both the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments.
“We have already been through colonization and we know what it means when the interests of others and more powerful nations and peoples affects us negatively and when decisions are taken thousands of kilometres away from us.”
It’s funny because the US basically already has military influence in the country that they are now weakening, and they already have an open economy that would allow the US to dominate any industrialization attempts.
Trump wants Greenland to do what he is doing in the US, to sell it and pass it to a closed market of cronies loyal to him that can’t operate in an open market because of their open exploitative practices. I hope that Greenland can easily past their lies regardless of what social network bubbles they try to encase them in.
Oh there may not be better ones, but there are definitely worse ones, and the USA qualifies. Ask an American Indian – if you can still find one.
If they look to their polar neighbors they can find some. Alaskan natives still maintain a lot of traditional lands outside places white people want, I know some Yupik folks who grew up in their village. They also were brutally colonized, it was horrible and evil what we did to them, but they’re still here, and part of starting to do right by them is to acknowledge it.
There’s also the Navajo Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy who maintain enough size that recognition of these nations is something people really ought to be considering. You’ve also got native folks in the pacific northwest and most states (36/50) still have at least one reservation.
I totally understand what you meant, but one of the forms of anti indigenous behavior is to pretend they aren’t still around, still oppressed, and still relevant. ICE has been attacking Native Americans in the past year.
The us will despoil it with abandon if they get their grasping hands on it. Give nothing back while polluting the fresh water and sea. With polluted shorelines, the natives entirely reliant on the bounty of a still rather clean ocean shoreline will have no where to turn, except surrendering assets to those polluting.
The administration and investing companies do not care, no matter how bad denmark is, they are a far sight worse.
Denmark also allows a higher amount of regional control the us would supercede to allow projects that poison the waters the natives rely on.
