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May be off topic question. Does Greenland hold any strategic interest to Denmark?
by ksec 2y ago
May be off topic question. Does Greenland hold any strategic interest to Denmark?
- newsclues 2y agoLikely the same strategic interests that make it interesting for American imperialism.
- TMWNN 2y agoNot really. Denmark does not have the resources to develop (or defend) Greenland the way the US can. Denmark's entire annual subsidy to the Greenlandic government (which the latter very much needs to keep afloat) as of 2020 was $670 million, which is less than the annual budget of El Paso. <https://web.archive.org/web/20200708202258/https://www.thelondonglobalist.org/greenland-americas-new-strategic-imperative/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200708202258/https://www.thelo...> A US-owned (or US-affiliated under a compact of free association) Greenland will in a decade see more development than it has in the past century, just as the US bases that dotted the island during the Cold War were themselves more development than Denmark built in the past century. My favorite anecdote about Greenland is that the US presence during and after WW2 brought Sears catalogs that residents used to for the first time obtain many goods. <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-abandoned-mining-town-greenland-helped-win-world-war-ii-180973835/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-abandoned-mining-t...>