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Greenland's Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said the territory was willing to cooperate with the United States and other countries, but only on the basis of mutual respect.

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.

exceptione•8m ago

In diplomatic terms, this is nothing less than a declaration of war.

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

Yes, like in many other cases. But it doesn't make it less dangerous, each new transgression removes another set of brakes. The dynamics of crime are that the new cycle will be nastier than the last one. In a society where both communication, intel and policy is in the hands of a very small circle of powerful people, this insurrection might turn out to be too powerful to break.