The Trump administration proposal is based on detailed financial calculations. According to representatives of the republican government, Funds for the implementation of this project could come from the exploitation of natural resources of Greenlandsuch as rare lands, copper, gold, uranium or crude oil. American sources emphasize the economic potential of the island in the context of such resources, as well as the importance of its location in the Arctic.
According to the Spanish EFE press agency, the United States is ready to take non -standard actions to annex this Arctic territory, seeing in this step a strategically key solution. “Denmark Greenland seems to be almost left alone,” American sources note.
According to The New York Times, Washington is considering Replacing current Danish subsidies in the amount of $ 600 million, paid with Greenland, direct transfers to the accounts of its inhabitants. Proposed 10,000 dollars per person a year is to act as an encouragement, which can attract Greenland support for the American concept of connecting the island.
Greenland, formally the largest island of the world, on which the majority of territory covers the glacier, is inhabited by only 56 thousand. people. This population is focused on about 20 percent of the island's surface, free of ice. Historically, Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953, and currently functions as the autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark.
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Trump's proposals are accompanied by the argument of the Vice Vice President JD Vance in March. “We need Greenland because of national and international security,” emphasized the vice president during his visit. Donald Trump himself, speaking in Congress, said that his administration “works with everyone to achieve this.”
However, the Greenland authorities rejected the idea of selling an island or any political rapprochement with the United States. “The island is not for sale or does not want to belong to the United States” – is the official position of local authorities.
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