Donald Trump reportedly plans to propose to Europeans at the World Economic Forum in Davos a 99-year lease contract for Greenland, or granting a preferential status to the island’s inhabitants, similar to that of Puerto Rico, according to sources cited by Kyiv Post.
This would mean that Greenlanders would become American citizens with full bilateral access and trade privileges. They would be exempt from US income tax, except in cases where they move to the mainland – an idea that marketing consultants say could be sold as a prosperity package for the island’s approximately 56,000 inhabitants.
The US President has tasked his team to prepare several options regarding Greenland, which will be proposed to European allies at Davos. This move comes as the EU weighs retaliatory tariffs, sanctions, and even its nuclear economic option against what leaders consider to be a coercive attempt by Trump to annex the Danish territory.
“This is the most serious transatlantic rupture we’ve seen since the Iraq war,” said a high-ranking Western official. “And it’s unfolding on an island that most Europeans considered forever untouchable.”
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