Hundreds of Greenlanders fastidiously marched throughout snow and ice to take a stand in opposition to Donald Trump on Saturday. They held indicators of protest, waved their nationwide flag and chanted “Greenland isn’t on the market” within the face of accelerating threats of an American takeover.
Simply as they completed their trek from the small downtown of Greenland’s capital metropolis, Nuuk, to the US consulate, the information broke that Trump had introduced he would charge a 10% tariff on eight European countries from February over their opposition to US management of Greenland.
“I believed at the present time couldn’t get any worse, but it surely simply did,” Malik Dollerup-Scheibel mentioned after the Related Press advised him about Trump’s announcement. “It simply reveals he has no regret for any form of human being now.”
Trump has lengthy mentioned he thinks the US ought to personal the strategically positioned and mineral-rich island, which is a self-governing territory of Greenland. Trump intensified his calls a day after the navy operation to oust the previous Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
Dollerup-Scheibel, a 21-year-old Greenlander, and the Greenland prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, had been amongst what others described because the island’s greatest protest, drawing practically 1 / 4 of Nuuk’s inhabitants.
Others held rallies and solidarity marches throughout the Danish realm, together with in Copenhagen, in addition to within the capital of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut in Canada’s far north.
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