Donald Trump¡¯s obsession with Greenland has put the world¡¯s largest island in an unexpected position of power.
While Trump¡¯s 2019 bid for the Arctic territory was dismissed as little more than a joke, the president-elect¡¯s timing is better this time around ¡ª Greenlanders are intensifying their push for independence from Denmark. Within the next three months, they will hold a general election that will take the temperature of that relationship.
That gives Greenland the ability to play the U.S. and Denmark off of each other ¡ª a dynamic that might ultimately see it come out on top.
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