Trump’s predatory mood towards Greenland |
US President Donald Trump’s attempt to “grab” Greenland constitutes a neo-colonial effort by a global “sheriff” who clearly does not respect the island’s national sovereignty and fundamental human rights.
Thus, demonstrations took place in the capital Nuuk – the largest demonstrations in Greenland’s history – and Copenhagen, with slogans such as “Greenland is not for sale” and “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders”, and which highlighted the will for self-determination. At the same time, polls show that about 85% of Greenlanders reject the prospect of joining the US. Greenland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, moreover, has described the pressure as “disrespectful” and has called for an end to threats and rhetoric about annexation “among friends.”
The Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, stated the following: “This is a dark chapter we are in” and clarified that “Denmark cannot negotiate sovereignty, identity, borders and democracy.”
The subsequent retreat of US President Donald Trump on plans to use military force to occupy Greenland and the cancellation of additional tariffs on eight European NATO member states that opposed his plans to acquire the island is phenomenal because his aggressive, conquering dispositions have not in essence diminished at all, while the “rift” in the Euro-Atlantic axis has become deep, testing the cohesion of the Western world.
But let’s see what Greenland’s data is and why it is so important island. Greenland is the largest island on........