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LetMyPeopleVote

(175,078 posts) Sun Jan 11, 2026, 04:06 PM 5 hrs ago

A little history on how the US agreed in 1916 to Denmark's control of Greenland in exchange for the Virgin Islands.

The US signed a treaty with Denmark trading the Virgin Islands for Greenland. trump wants to ignore this treaty

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A little history on how the US agreed in 1916 to Denmark's control of Greenland in exchange for the Virgin Islands. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 5 hrs ago OP

NIce hand. Note the date was done freehand, not typed. nt eppur_se_muova 3 hrs ago #1

K&R for, fine. But this item says Greenlanders have been trending towards independence & choice. UTUSN 3 hrs ago #2

eppur_se_muova

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1. NIce hand. Note the date was done freehand, not typed. nt

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Sun Jan 11, 2026, 05:41 PM

3 hrs ago

UTUSN

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2. K&R for, fine. But this item says Greenlanders have been trending towards independence & choice.

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Sun Jan 11, 2026, 06:21 PM

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmarks-greenland-dilemma-defending-territory-already-its-way-out-2026-01-10/

Denmark's Greenland dilemma: Defending a territory already on its way out

.... "Denmark risks exhausting its foreign policy capital to secure Greenland, only to watch it walk away afterwards," said Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, a political science professor at University of Copenhagen. ....

Yet it may ultimately have nothing to show for its efforts if Greenlanders choose independence - or strike their own deal with Washington. ....

But Greenland's aspirations for self-determination have been brewing since the former colony got greater autonomy and its own parliament in 1979. A 2009 agreement explicitly recognised Greenlanders' right to independence if they choose.

All Greenlandic parties say they want independence, but differ on how, and when, to achieve it. ....

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