In a response to US President Donald Trump’s latest threat to seize control of Greenland, the leaders of the Danish autonomous region’s five main political parties issued a joint statement late Friday declaring the future of the island should be decided by Greenlanders.

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    Who said they would even be “Americans”?

    Ask the people of Venezuela: are they US citizens now?

    Greenland will be just another poor banana republic. Under the thumb of Usa, and some stupid, corrupt governor.

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    Trump has made light of the concerns of Denmark, a steadfast US ally that joined the United States in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

    Is that a French ‘told you so’?

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    Step one. Mass migration from mainland Europe to Greenland. At least 10M people should move to Greenland.

    Step two. Sell Greenland to USA.

    Step three. 10M Europeans turned Americans, flips the scale in USA politics.

    Step four. USA finally takes care of school shootings, introduces exotic concepts like free healthcare and employee rights. Joins EU.

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      I can understand the idea behind this, but I guess this is not the choice of the Greelanders either.

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      14 days ago

      Does not work.

      These little 10 mill can only make the so-called democrats win once. That does not bring all these changes that you are dreaming of. Usa needs some much stronger change, before things can improve to any meaningful extend.

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    I mean, they would never be seen as such… they would be like Samoans or at best, Hawaiian natives…

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    Great for Greenlanders to have a united voice, this helps their cause.