Greenland Belongs to the Inuit
The Greenland debate keeps asking whether the U.S. could take it, or whether Denmark should keep it. The missing question is: What do the Greenlanders want? They’ve already answered: 'We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.' This is about Indigenous sovereignty and the quiet billionaire scramble for Greenland’s resources.
e have, regrettably, been privy to Trump's desire of taking over Greenland in an imperial, hostile manner for a long while now. I don't know how many people even remember how he [announced the claim during his first presidency](https://time.com/5653167/trump-buy-greenland-memes/) back in 2019, when he wasn't banned on Twitter, and when Twitter existed.
Back then, the claim was regarded as a "meme", a rather hilarious proposition only in how absurd it was. The logistics were impossible. There was no gravity pulling the claim back to the actual living world.
How things have changed. The progressive few (and yet always growing) have been telling everyone else _over and over_ that claims like these were, in fact, **not** made in jest.
We have been promised that [ICE, who has turned into Trump's Schutzstaffel, would detain every undocumented immigrant in the country](https://www.cfr.org/article/ice-and-deportations-how-trump-reshaping-immigration-enforcement). We have been promised that [education in the United States would collapse as we know it](https://19thnews.org/2025/11/department-of-education-dismantling-trump/), that [social security and any other public benefits would be irreversibly transformed for the worst](https://www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-administration-plans-deep-cuts-to-social-security-disability-insurance-particularly-for). None of this has been bluffing or hypothetical rhetoric. It is all happening.
Where we stand now is [pundits on Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6387569079112) and elsewhere now trying to ascertain the logistics and probability of a United States takeover of Greenland. Trump's cabinet is preparing plans, and instead of impeachment and sanctions, the world is carefully hedging _just how exactly_ grim and atrocious such a takeover would be.
And this isn't actually about Greenland. Trump has made numerous comments about [Canada being the 51st state](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-canada-becoming-the-51st-state-raise-a-lot-of-questions), has said that [Cuba needs to fall](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/5/trump-threatens-colombias-petro-says-cuba-looks-like-its-ready-to-fall), and that it would be 'OK' [launching strikes in Mexico to fight drug smuggling](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-us-military-cartels-mexico-land.html).
When you line all of these comments up alongside the fact that [the president of Venezuela was kidnapped by the United States](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/5/venezuelas-abducted-leader-maduro-wife-to-appear-in-nyc-court), and Trump recently posted a photo of himself as ["sitting president" of the country](https://time.com/7345445/trump-venezuela-acting-president-wikipedia-truth-social/), the picture becomes clear. Trump wants the United States t
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