Greenland is willing to talk.
On Monday, in response to the diplomatic earthquake triggered last week by President-elect Donald Trump, who mulled the possibility of seizing the giant Arctic Ocean island, Greenland’s prime minister said the territory would like to work more closely with the United States. in matters of defense and natural resources.
“The reality is that we are going to work with the United States, yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Prime Minister Múte Egede said at a news conference in Nuuk, the tiny, frigid capital of Greenland.
But he was adamant: Greenlanders did not want to become Americans.
“We have to be very smart in the way we act,” he said, adding: “Power struggles between the superpowers are increasing and now they are knocking on our door.”
Trump refused to rule out using economic or military force to recapture the Panama Canal and seize Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that he suggested purchasing during his first term. Then, as now, Greenland and Denmark said the island was not for sale. Panamanian leaders also rejected the threat.
