Margaret Kimberley, 21 Jan 2026

Lede: Donald Trump and other U.S. presidents are gangsters who will sometimes
steal from their own crew. The Greenland heist is but the latest example, as the
Denmark colonizers cry that they were robbed after assisting the head criminal
in charge.

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Donald Trump is committed to making his dream of claiming Greenland, a colony of
Denmark, as a United States territory. Trump is moving full speed ahead despite
the fact that many indigenous Greenlanders want to be independent of Denmark and
that Denmark opposes this seizure. There is no domestic or international law
that allows this forced expropriation to take place, but no matter. The United
States has eviscerated international law for years and usually with the help of
NATO allies like Denmark.

Trump claims that Russia and China will snatch Greenland if the U.S. doesn't,
despite the fact that neither country has shown such an interest. Trump wants
Greenland because billionaires want it too. During the first Trump
administration in 2018, "... a prominent businessman [Ronald Lauder] he knew had
suggested that the U.S. buy Greenland ..." Lauder is not alone in coveting that
enormous Arctic island. Tech billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others plan
to use Greenland as a source of rare earth minerals and as the site for
dystopian "freedom cities" which would operate outside of law and regulation.

The Kingdom of Denmark is unhappy, to say the least, as are other European
countries, but they all must be scrutinized for the behavior they exhibit
towards other nations that are targeted by the U.S.

The U.S. began its regime change and asset-stealing effort against Venezuela in
2019 by designating an "interim president," Juan Guaido. In order to legitimize
what was illegitimate, the Trump administration asked allies to join in
recognizing Guaido. Denmark was among those going along with the dirty
deed. "Denmark recognizes the President of the National Assembly ... until new
free and democratic elections take place." Of course, Venezuela already had free
and democratic elections but when the puppeteer demanded compliance with regime
change, Denmark went right along.

There are many examples of Denmark's commitment to being a junior partner in
U.S. imperialism. Anders Fogh Rasmussen served as the Prime Minister of Denmark
from 2001 to 2009. Just a few months after leaving that office, he became the
Secretary General of NATO, serving in that role until 2014. Rasmussen led NATO
during the 2011 regime change plot against Libya, and proclaimed the mission
"successful" and himself "proud" to have played a role in that nation's
destruction.

Trump's determination to take Greenland from Denmark is one that
anti-imperialists must oppose. His gangsterish stance, "If we don't do it the
easy way we're going to do it the hard way," is shocking to the conscience of
anyone who believes in international law or ethics or basic human decency. Yet
Denmark's history and politics must be examined as well. That country is no
paragon of democracy and justice in its domestic policies or in its
international relations as a loyal U.S. proxy.

Leftists in the U.S. are often advised to look to social democratic governments
such as Denmark as a guide for governance. But when the Global South immigrant
population grew to the kind of tipping point that makes white people
uncomfortable, those same social democrats enacted racist legislation in order
to police those people, determine where they live and even how often they can
interact with their own children. Called the Ghetto Package, the 2018
legislation designated neighborhoods as "ghettos" or "tough ghettos" if their
population was more than 50% non-European. The law decreed that public housing
could make up no more than 40% of housing stock. Immigrants from nations such as
Iraq, Syria, and Somalia were impacted as they were forced out of their
neighborhoods through evictions and demolitions. Of course, gentrification
followed as private investors renovated the empty housing and immediately raised
rents.

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Immigrants were not the only victims of Danish racism. Greenland is the
ancestral home of Inuit peoples who share the struggles of indigenous peoples
throughout the western hemisphere. They face job discrimination, higher
incarceration rates and even the loss of their children, who are removed by
Danish authorities.

In the 1960s and 1970s, 4,500 Greenland women and girls as young as 13 were
forcibly sterilized when Intrauterine Devices (IUD) were inserted in their
wombs, often without their knowledge or consent. Some were permanently rendered
infertile, others suffered from a variety of medical conditions. The current
Danish prime minister apologized in 2025 for this genocidal practice, but words
ring hollow when terrible harm is done to oppressed people.

Now, indigenous Greenlanders are caught in a dilemma. They do not want to be
part of the United States, but many of them now fear that efforts at an
independence movement will put them in the hands of Trump's billionaire cronies.

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Of course, the U.S. has no right to Greenland but neither do the colonizing
Danes. It is wrong for the U.S. to do the bidding of the ultra-wealthy elite who
want to grab Greenland and the fact the state operates on their behalf should
not end condemnation of these practices. But Denmark and other European nations
cannot be allowed to play the victims when they are also the victimizers. They
are happy vassals one day, joining the coalition of the willing in the Iraq
invasion, but shedding tears when the mafia chieftain takes their stuff. No one
should accept Denmark's claims of innocence. In regard to Greenland, there is
indeed no honor among thieves.

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