Greenlanders have spoken

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Someone else has also spoken about Greenland:

CANADIAN ARMED FORCES: Defending Denmark & Greenland

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Someone else has also spoken about Greenland:

What is important is what Greenland speaks about itself and it’s future plans.
Playing with fire - just saying . There has already been one country playing games with a bigger guy and it is ending poorly.

Now Greenland pissing off USA - not good

Greenland Courts China in Snub to Trump - Newsweek

Canadian Armed Forces??? - can You say again pls.

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That will work like Cuba and Russia lol

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Danish king to visit Greenland in show of unity amid Trump interest -...

King Frederik, who is Denmark’s head of state but does not hold formal political powers, will go to Greenland with Nielsen when the prime minister returns to the Arctic island on April 28. The king last visited Greenland with his wife Queen Mary from June 29-July 6 last year.

The king will visit Nuuk as well as going to Station Nord, a military outpost in the far north, and the Sirius Patrol, a special forces command that uses dog sleds to travel across Greenland’s vast glacier.

PS> He served in the Sirius Patrol for a period when doing his miltary traning:

Interestingly, the Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark served as a member of the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol during the early 2000s. This service included a 2,200 mile trek through Northern Greenland between February and May. The Prince celebrated his birthday on patrol, and the expedition also marked the 50th anniversary of the unit

Source: https://greydynamics.com/sirius-dog-sled-patrol-denmarks-arctic-special-forces/

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Denmark’s King Frederik and Greenland’s head of government Jens-Frederik Nielsen in front of an iceberg during a boat trip in Nuuk fjord, in Greenland, April 29, 2025
Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS/File Photo

US private sector delegation heads to Greenland - ArcticToday

This visit marks the first by a private sector delegation to the Arctic island since the election of Jens-Frederik Nielsen of the pro-business Demokratiit Party as its premier.
The delegation includes representatives from mining firms Critical Metals Corp, Cogency Power, American Renewable Metals and Refracture.

Greenland, with substantial mineral deposits potentially worth trillions of dollars, has a mining sector dominated by Australian, Canadian, and British firms, with limited U.S. investment.

Horn said he believes that capitalization and legitimate private sector growth will facilitate greater collaboration in an independent Greenland backed by U.S. private development.
Horn said he believes Greenland’s openness to private sector investment will bolster its independence and ensure a viable business mode.

PS> Greenland is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark, with it’s own Government and Parliament, elected in a free and fair election only a few weeks ago.
(Free except for Trump’s attempt at meddling)

EXPLAINER: Why is Greenland a part of the Danish Kingdom?

BTW: USA already have an agreement whereby they can establish military bases on Greenland:

In a matter of a few weeks in early 1951, a group of Danish senior officials negotiated a wide-ranging agreement on the future defense of Greenland with a visiting American diplomatic-military delegation (“the Agreement” or “the 1951 Agreement”). The Agreement is still in force and has, for nearly 50 years, authorized extensive American defense activities in Greenland. The negotiation of the Agreement has recently been highlighted in a study of Greenland during the Cold War. Grønland under den kolde krig. published by the Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI) (DUPI 1997).1 The study was based on full access to all relevant Danish government papers as well as a very extensive documentation found in American archives, including an almost complete set of minutes from the negotiations. The report was therefore able to give a very detailed and exact account of the negotiations. their antecedents, and their general context."

Source: View of Negotiating the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects | Scandinavian Political Studies

Both the former and present Greenland Government has stated that US companies have the same right to apply for mining permits, or any other form of business permits, in Greenland as any other foreign companies.

It is up to the Greenlanders to decide how they will be governed, who will be their Head of State (Presently the King of Denmark) and who they want to do business with.

PS> They already have the right to declare independence from Denmark when they are ready for it. But they also have to weigh the pros and cons of independence, both economically and security wise.

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Denmark to summon US envoy over report of Greenland spying directive

The Danish foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said on Wednesday that he was concerned about the report in the Wall Street Journal, telling the Ritzau news agency: “It worries me a lot, because we don’t spy between friends.”

High-ranking officials working under Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, issued the instruction to agency heads in a “collection emphasis message”, the Journal reported.

Gabbard issued a statement saying the newspaper “should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the president by politicizing and leaking classified information”.

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No good options as Denmark seeks to counter U.S. threats to Greenland -...

“The consulate’s main task is to undermine Greenland and especially to undermine the relationship between Denmark and Greenland. That’s not something we have any interest in,” he said. “But certainly not to carry out subversive activities. I find it hard to imagine the Americans would allow that from another country.”

Jarlov believes what is being witnessed is only the tip of the iceberg and that more revelation about U.S. espionage operations in Greenland will come to light in the future.

“It is completely predictable, and more of the same is coming. In the time ahead, they will do everything they can to discredit Denmark’s presence in Greenland and support separatists,” he said. “There will be more and more of this in the near future with the goal of pushing Denmark out, so they can take control of Greenland and ultimately seize all the resources.”

A March 6 poll conducted by Danish newspaper Berlingske showed that 41% of Danes view the U.S. as a serious threat. Denmark’s options for responding to increased U.S. belligerence are quite limited, but politically the focus has been on speaking softly, yet firmly and drumming up EU support. Meanwhile, the small Scandinavian nation has tried to garner sympathy and understanding from Americans.

With allies like the US, Denmark is happy to have good and reliable friends in Europe and beyond:
The Greenland situation is on the agenda at the “Joint Expeditionary Force Leaders’ Summit on security” now ongoing in Oslo: Norway to host Joint Expeditionary Force Leaders’ Summit on security - regjeringen.no

The meeting stated this morning and the US threats against Greenland is on the agenda:
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Friday said those who believe there is “another kind of legal regime in the Arctic” should be told that “this is not the case.”
Speaking ahead of a Joint Expeditionary Force leaders’ meeting in Oslo, Gahr Støre said there seemed to be suggestions that “in the Arctic, there is some kind of terra nullius, law doesn’t apply.”
“It applies, sovereignty applies. And Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark,” he said ahead of the meeting with the leaders of the U.K., Nordic and Baltic nations.

Denmark is not keeping quite about this unfriendly act by the Trump Administration:
https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-danish-leader-says-you-cannot-spy-against-an-ally-after-reports-of-us-gathering-greenland-info/