greenland belongs to the people of greenland!  greenland is currently an autonomous region within the kingdom of denmark. we are danish citizens. our dream is full independence. together with denmark we stood by us when they evoked article 5 for the first time in history, we fought by your side for decades and lost proportionally the same as you did in in the wars we fought together. now you wanna backstab us??  we, most emphatically, do not want to become another, abused, neglected overseas territory of the us. the idea that you can just send someone in here with a bunch of money and wed sell our country, is ludicrous. all we have to do is to see how the us has, and is treating its indigenous populations in alaska and in the continental us. we have no illusions about being treated any differently under us rule.  greenland has formally been a territory of denmark since 1721, long before the u.s. was even a sovereign country.  in 1979, greenland got autonomy and a home rule government was elected. this was achieved, not through bloodshed and war but through peaceful negotiations. a situation pretty unique in a world where most colonized people have had to pay for any independence with their blood.  the authority of the government of greenland, and its parliament, was further expanded in 2009. the greenland government and parliament make unilateral decisions on almost all domestic issues.  the members of the parliament are elected every four years through free and fully democratic elections. however, some areas are still determined by denmark such as defense, foreign policy, citizenship, and the judiciary system. denmark does not, however, enact or decide any laws in these areas that concern greenland without consulting first with our own lawgivers.
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