America has a history of military interest in Greenland, as well.Ā
During the Second World War and the Cold War, there were many American military bases in Greenland. Bases theyāve never cleaned up after, of course, and that Denmark has only recently committed to clean up
There was also a whole secret military project planned for Greenland that the Danish government was initially unaware of, called Project Iceworm. The plan was to store 600 nuclear missiles deep in the Greenlandic ice cap and move them around through tunnels. They very much did not have Danish permission for this; officially the base they were started for that purposes was a scientific outpost.
Denmark had actually committed to not storing nuclear weapons on its soil, so when a plane crashed near a military base with four hydrogen bombs and the area got exposed to nuclear contamination, that was a pretty big scandal. When documents from the Project Iceworm thing came to light, and it became clear the Danish government had let the US military continue with it after they found out about it, that was an even bigger scandal.Ā
In general thereās a lot of pollution left behind from the American military bases. Apparently, they used to pour petrol in some of the lakes to get rid of mosquitos (???). One of the big concerns, though, is Camp Century, which was the main site for Project Iceworm. It was powered by a nuclear reactor and again, when it was left behind, everything was left behind. Since the ice cap is melting, thereās a worry that all that waste, nuclear and otherwise, will go into the seaā¦
Also, aside from having no obligation to clean up once they left somewhere, the US Military didnāt even have the obligation to inform neither Denmark nor Greenland of what they left behind, so Greenland isnāt actually sure how much waste, dangerous or otherwise, has been left behind in all sorts of places.Ā Ā
Anyway, American interest in Greenland is not at all surprising, both because of oil interests and military ones. The surprising part - the absurd part, Frederiksen expressed the general feeling of the public pretty well with that word - was the notion that they could straight up buy an autonoumous region with the right to become fully independent once the nation decides itās the right time for it (which some political parties in Greenland have been arguing should be very soon).Ā
But of course, Trump believing he can buy whatever he likes is not all that surprising, either.Ā
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