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In the context of his broader foreign policy, U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported musing about purchasing Greenland from Denmark may not seem all that unnerving.
After all, the former real-estate magnate has already made bold diplomatic moves, such as developing a personal friendship with North Korea’s hitherto reclusive leader and negotiating with the Taliban for nearly a year to try to bring an end to the U.S.’s longest war.
Indeed, buying the island isn’t as wild an idea as it might first seem to some. It may in fact be an example of the U.S. President considering forward-looking, if complex, policy that might strengthen the continent and Greenland itself.
This seemingly unexpected overture has generated much critical reaction in Greenland. But that’s little wonder, given the broad changes that have occurred in the former Danish colony.
Greenland has enjoyed much progress, from outright colony to more collaborative home-rule governance in 1979, and – after a 2008 referendum in which 75.54 per cent of Greenlanders supported increased autonomy – even more robust self-rule.
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