Denmark’s DilemmaOpinionBy Dr Ruben ThurairajahEmpires, when they speak of values, usually mean geography. A War Explained to the WorldThe war was presented as necessity, then as virtue. Denmark’s Forgotten EmpireThere was an older echo here. Greenland was suddenly too important to be left to Denmark, too strategic to be governed by consent alone. It exited empire quietly and reinvented itself as a moral state.

Source: Sunday Times January 17, 2026 12:10 UTC