Who Gets to Determine Greenland’s Future?

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Despite America’s military presence on the island, the idea of the U.S. taking Greenland by force is unrealistic. “There’s a basic lack of understanding of what kind of land Greenland is,” Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, who specializes in Arctic identity, diplomacy, and security, told me. “It’s a colossal piece of ice with very rocky terrain around it, with no roads and scattered settlements. It’s not a territory that you can have or take or invade. That would just be silly.”