While most Greenlanders favour eventual independence from Denmark, opinion polls show overwhelming opposition to becoming part of the US.

With a population of only 57,000 I'm not sure how independence could work. It seems to me that such a large geography with so few people would need to depend on at least one other country for protection etc.

The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have given a joint press conference. This is insane, but since admitting that makes us really uneasy, my prediction is that people will in great numbers

  a) look away, or
  b) normalize it with pseudo-rationalist blather