President Donald Trump may or may not be able to bring Greenland under American control, but he does have options in the wake of geopolitical currents transforming Arctic statecraft.
Greenland’s prime minister announced on Tuesday that the semi-autonomous Danish territory will hold a snap election on March 11 as Trump considers avenues to annex the island. In light of the White House’s renewed acquisition interest, the top issue to be considered is likely Greenland’s status as an independent state.
“We are in the midst of a serious time. A time that we have never experienced in our country,” Prime Minister Mute Egede wrote in a social media post reported by Reuters. “This is not the time for internal division.”
Trump reignited a more than 150-year-old interest in the island just weeks before his second inauguration. In December, the president-elect…
