Unusual global attention to Trump’s claims

The elections on Tuesday Greenland They take place in the middle of unusual world attention after the president of the United States, Donald Trumphas insisted on taking control of this autonomous region of Denmark, the largest island on the planet, who wants to achieve its independence for decades.

Despite the increasing sovereign requirements, these elections would not have much more attention at a different time than those on the territory itself and in Denmark, but the agitated return of President Trump to the White House is also anything but normal.

His claims of the territory, in contrast to, in contrast to, without a doubt, because of their geostrategic position in the North Pole and the wealth in natural resources, they have set the eyes of the world in an election in which about 41,000 people, mostly native Inuit, are registered to indicate the 31 representatives of an island that is largely uninverable and true for the most of the island 80 % of the expansion is under eternal ice.

“As I made clear during my speech for the congress, the United States strongly supports the right of the population of Greenland to determine their own future,” Trump has written in Truth in the last hours of social. However, the ambitions of the Groenlanders are far from those he has planned for them.

“We are willing to invest billions of dollars to create new jobs and make them rich. And if they want, we welcome them to be part of the largest nation in the world: the United States of America,” he invited.

Trump, who already presented an offer to Denmark during his first term to buy Greenlandia, has assured that the United States will continue to guarantee the safety of the island, where it has been with the 50s since the 1950s PituffLocated on the island of Noordwest.

‘Greenland is not for sale’

‘Greenland is not for sale’ is one of the sentences that are the most repeated in Greenland and in Denmark, although with different motivations, since Trump has announced that it would somehow be done with the control of the island “.

Greenland’s prime minister, Stupid EedeKlagged in a final interview for Danish public television that the “unpredictability” of Trump influences the global “different fronts” and assured that after this insistence on taking control of the island they did not want that approach to the United States, as they had wanted in other normal circumstances.

Eede leads the coalition of independence behind that Greenland has been ruling since 2021 and is a favorite to revise the position, according to surveys. Your party, Ataqatigiit InuitIt would reach 31 % of the votes, nine points more than his board partner, Siumut.

The same polls have reflected an increase in opposition parties, including NaleraqAlso independence, in favor of strengthening ties with the United States and that this opportunity will be as a candidate for the ‘influencer’ Quanuk olsen.

Overwhelming in favor of self -government

The Groenlanders voted overwhelming in favor of self -government in one Referendum in 2009who also formed a way for independence.

The majority of the Groenlanden are in favor of Denmark Control from DenmarkIt decides in monetary, defense and exterior policy, although they do not know how and when, since Copenhagen offers more than half of the budget of Greenland to cover the basic services of employment, health and education.

In that sense, sovereignty movements trust these funds to cover the costs of a future state by the benefits of the Exploitation of natural resourcesas the Rare earth of the available, hidden under the ice, or Petroleum deposits Still without taking advantage of everything.