America will bombard Greenland with a PR marketing campaign in an try and annex the island, insiders told The New York Times on Thursday.
Regardless of Trump’s veiled threats of navy motion, an official coverage being solid consists of wooing Greenland with kinship.
A supply briefed on the matter advised the Occasions that Trump’s braintrust has begun formulating promoting and social media outreach efforts ― one among which is to pitch the hyperlink between the Inuit individuals of Alaska and the Inuit residents of Greenland. The latter are descended from Inuit individuals who migrated out of Alaska centuries ago.
The newspaper known as it “an unlikely enchantment to Greenlanders’ shared heritage.”
Trump’s advisers on the matter by no means significantly thought of pressure, an official stated.
The Washington Post previously reported that a part of the allure offensive is to “provide a sweeter deal” to the semiautonomous Danish territory’s authorities than Denmark has. That would come with allocating greater than the $600 million a yr supplied to the island by Denmark for companies. In keeping with the Occasions, one of many choices is to supply every Greenlander $10,000 a yr as a part of the phrases of an American takeover.
Trump has talked up Greenland as a safety buffer and has advised Greenlanders that U.S. management may make them “wealthy.”
However Danish and native leaders have pushed again exhausting at any discuss of annexation.
