When Donald Trump started talking about bringing mineral-rich and income-poor Greenland under a U.S. umbrella (as early as his first term), the media howled in laughter.
But Greenland just held a referendum of sorts.
The big loser was Prime Minister Mute Egede, a leftist who made opposition to Trump central to his campaign. Instead, in elections held Tuesday, Greenland's 29,000 voters showed they were far more interested in economic development and an openness to U.S. partnership.
Bloomberg reports: "Support for Greenland's leftist coalition regime cratered from 66% four years ago, down to just 36% in this election. The right-of-center coalition of Demokraatit and the Naleraq party won 55% of the vote. While both parties criticized Trump's blustering over sovereignty, they agreed that they would be favorable to a closer form of association and cooperation with the U.S."
Egede pleaded with Greenland's voters to remove "the shackles of the colonial era." Instead, it appears they decided to throw off the shackles of socialism.
If Greenland became a territory of the United States, every resident of resource-rich Greenland would become very rich very soon.
