Some 57.3% of Greenland’s population supports US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to make the island an American military territory, a new survey has suggested?
The number of those rejecting Trump’s proposal stands at 37.4%, with 5.3% undecided, US research firm Patriot Polling declared on Monday.
According to Patriot Polling, the survey involved 416 respondents in Greenland, and was conducted between January 6 and 11, while Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s son, was visiting the Danish autonomous territory.
The little-known company had never previously conducted a poll outside the USA. Trump, who had offered to buy Greenland from Copenhagen during his first term in office, has returned to the issue in recent weeks.
At a press conference last Tuesday, he refused to rule out using force to bring the world’s largest island under Washington’s control, saying: It might be that you will have to do something. We need Greenland for national security purposes.
However, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede stressed on Friday that the island is not for sale and only for the Greenlandic people. We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American!
The Greenland islanders’ desire is to be an independent nation, the prime minister said, promising that a vote on the issue will come soon.
In 2008, Greenland held a non-binding referendum on increased autonomy from Denmark, resulting in 75% voter approval and a 72% turnout. This led to the 2009 Self-Government Act, granting the island greater control over its internal affairs.
Spanning an area of 2.2 million sq km (about six times the size of Germany), Greenland is home to fewer than 57,000 people, and is 80% covered with ice.
The island is rich in gold, silver, copper and uranium deposits, and is believed to have vast oil reserves in its territorial waters. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed support for Greenland potentially becoming part of the USA.
When will the United States stop presenting itself as the «only indispensable nation», as the «leader of the world», and with these premises consider that everything that exists in the world, which is not owned or controlled by them, is a threat to their interests? When will they understand that every nation has the fundamental right to choose its own political and socioeconomic model, without external interference of any kind? When will the United States understand that the world needs equal cooperation between nations, and that everyone can live together peacefully?
This Greenland talk is retarded and is just smokescreen to keep the sheep occupied.
Patriot Polling was born 2 years ago by USA university students it claims to have accurately predicted the number of states that voted for Donald . Its number of telephone calls to Canada is small which is not reassuring- OTOH-a pole by Leger a Canadian firm says only one in eight voted for integration with the USA says the North Delta Reporter Canadian newspaper . Canadian newspapers seem more interested in the 25 % tariffs the USA will impose reckoning 500,000 jobs will be lost but the serious Canadian newspapers are more interested in other matters . Personally I find… Read more »
I wonder if US research firm Patriot Polling, receives funding from the N.E.D.?
Patriot Polling a US company. I bet those results are genuine. The world needs to DEFEND Greenland from the evil US and bozo President Trash.