Greenland's election winners push back against Trump's wish to take control of the island

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Source: AP

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — A party that favors a gradual path to Greenland’s independence from Denmark won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections, held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goal of taking control of the island.

The center-right Demokraatit Party has pushed back against Trump’s rhetoric, saying it is for Greenlanders to decide the future of the strategically important territory, which holds large reserves of the rare earth minerals needed to make everything from mobile phones to renewable energy technology. The Arctic island is also home to a U.S. air base and straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic.

The result should send a clear message to Trump that Greenland is not for sale, Demokraatit leader Jens-Friederik Nielsen told Sky News.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/greenland-election-demokraatit-trump-arctic-13c295cbc716db2c8011be5819e11fef

[Lovie777]

1. How would you pronoun .....

Demokraatit?

[tornado34jh]

5. It's in Greenlandic language, an Inuit-Eskimo Language

Based on what I found on Wikipedia, and again, its using IPA for pronunciation, I think it sounds like temo-krats-it, with a very guttural R (like French rester or German Ruhr, father back than Spanish rr)

[IronLionZion]

2. Next step invade Greenland?

to liberate them from something

[RazorbackExpat]

3. They need to be liberated from rogue minerals

All of those rare earth ores are just sitting there, waiting for their chance to make their move

[Aristus]

4. I wonder if the Trumpsters are hoping whatever today's equivalent of Al Q'aida

will attack the U.S., so they can invade yet another country that has nothing to do with it.

We’ve become very good at dreaming up idiotic reasons for attacking countries that are no threat to us.