Pipaluk Lynge knows the history of how Indigenous people have been treated in the United States. And she’s well aware of the holes in the country’s health care system and its yawning economic inequality.
Ms. Lynge, one of Greenland’s top officials and the leader of the Parliament’s foreign and security policy committee, chafes at President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, and his insistence that Greenlanders would be better off as Americans.
“We’re not going to sell our soul,” she said. “We’re not stupid.”
I could see their government giving incentives for mainland citizens to move there which would be different from occupation in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.