Greenlanders ‘don’t want to be Americans’, say political leaders amid Trump threats

Five parties issue joint statement after US president warned it would occupy island ‘the nice way or the more difficult way’Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” and must decide the future of the Arctic island themselves, politicians in the self-governing Danish territory have said, after Donald Trump warned that the US would “do something [there] whether they like it or not”.The leaders of five political parties in the Greenlandic parliament issued a united statement on Friday night, soon after the US president doubled down on his threats to acquire the mineral-rich island. Continue reading...