Greenland as 51st State: What US Taking Over Arctic Island Could Look Like

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Geography research scholar Barry Scott Zellen, Ph.D, of the University of Connecticut, who is a senior fellow in Arctic security at the Institute of the North, told Newsweek: "It is possible that Greenlanders may, once the conversation starts, find the benefits of statehood and being part of our constitutional fabric brings many advantages, and select this as the final sovereign form."

Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, specializing in Arctic politics, disagreed.
He told Newsweek: "Greenlanders have almost unanimously—in the only credible polls conducted, in the recent election, in public statements from all the leaders of the political parties, and in the public response to the planned visit by the Vance couple—rejected the idea that they should in any shape or form be part of the USA."