US 'Democracy Promotion' Hits Greenland, Again
Greenland's reluctance to roll over for US strategic interests is making headlines, with locals expressing concern about losing their language and traditions. Yet, this isn't some fresh geopolitical overture. The US offered to buy Greenland in 1867, then again in 1946 for a cool $100 million in gold, and most recently in 2019 under former President Trump. Each rejection seems to merely reboot
Washington's 'good neighbor' policy (with an increasingly insistent tone). One might wonder what makes indigenous populations so resistant to US 'assistance.' Could it be the long history of American exceptionalism redefining 'help' as 'acquisition with local consent optional?' Perhaps the Greenlander's 'bristling' is just a polite way of saying, 'We saw what you did to Hawaii.' It appears some
states still prefer self-governance over becoming a strategic asset on the global chessboard.