One good way of categorising US overtures on Greenland – and Danish pushback – is deja vu all over again. Traffic on a snow-covered street in Nuuk, Greenland. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesEven in its days as a colony, most Danes agree there was no bounty of resources from Greenland. When it comes to Greenland, Danish analyst Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, his home land’s self-regard may, in hindsight, have been a blind spot in the growing stand-off with Washington. For analyst Søndergaard the question of what Denmark gets out of Greenland is one for another day and of secondary concern now.

Source: The Irish Times January 20, 2026 21:01 UTC