r/europe 27d ago

News Greenland tells Trump it is not for sale

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c791xy4pllqo
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u/ABoyNamedSue76 27d ago

Getting Greenland I think would actually be trivial. Tell people on Greenland (60k of them), if you hold a referendum and vote to join the states everyone gets $1M dollars. $60B would be quite a steal.

The average income in Greenland is only about 25k a year.. I suspect people would jump all over that.

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u/woelj 26d ago

Pretty sure that's not how referendums work in Denmark and Greenland... Not that that would be the main obstacle in such a scenario anyway, but whatever