Data scientist Joseph Burgess lives in Europe and brings insight into the Trump administration’s push to “get” Greenland for the United States. What does data show us about what Greenlanders want? What about Americans? We discuss it. Then, Burgess turns his attention to upcoming American special elections and some of the challenges and opportunities facing both major American political parties. Our guest:
•Joseph Burgess, team leader at the Social Sciences Data Lab at the University of Copenhagen
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USA, don't be cruel! Stay away from Greenland! A quarter of all Greenlanders live in Denmark proper and thousands of Danes live in Greenland as does people from the Faroe Islands. There are no Greenlander who does not have family in Denmark. It's a realm and has been for hundreds of years!
How would the Americans square that circle? Denmark already juggles three languages but Amerika wants to stir a fourth into the equation? Families will be split and some would have to adhere to foreign legislation and alien customs and will need visa to visit each other. None of these peoples want a forced citizenship or a flag from a foreign country!
The USA can't just convict them all to be Americans, rob all of them of their current citizenship – that is too hard a punishment for having done absolutely nothing wrong. A hostile takeover, creating adversaries in all 3 countries, the rest of Scandinavia and in the most of Europe too. This idea really is utterly outlandish, Greenland does not need any regime change! Greenland needs Greenland for the Greenlander's security!
You have to absolutely deluded to think that Trump is not serious and literal in his wish to take over Greenland. The USA is in the situation they are in exactly because people continue to not take him seriously.
You need to understand that the Supreme Court decision to provide immunity for any official action the president makes, encourages Trump to consider moving forward with war, genocide, a hostile dismantling of democracy in the US, and a deliberate crash of the global economy. 21st century colonization is 100% on the table. This is happening in real time.
Greenland absolutely needs to strengthen it's international ties and involve the UN if they don't want this to happen.
Imagine what happens if each Greenlander gets 1mln $ for voting to be part of US. Results kinda sure