If Trump offered you £1 million to vote for your country to become part of US, would you?

[Mochudubh]

This is hypothetically one of the options available to Greenlanders.

We're Scottish. I say no, DH says take the money and move.

Sorry, for some reason I can't enable voting. I get a No Entry sign

Exactly. I don't want to be under the sway of a country who looked at Donald Trump and thought he was the best leader.

U.S. military protection has been entirely for the benefit of the U.S having a foothold closer to Russia etc.

This is how a defence alliance works.

Countries do not need to own, control or run an ally’s country to be part of a defence alliance.

So why did Denmark agree to it? And why haven't they tried to stop it, if it's of no benefit to Denmark or Greenland?

God no.

I'm Scottish too. Absolutely not. The man wouldn't pay up if you said yes. He has history in Scotland of not paying his debts. In addition, it's morally wrong.

How is it "morally wrong"? Greenland is already a colony. They would just be changing who their colonisers were. And making some money from the change! 😄

Crikey, OhNo answers and replies fast 😳

But although there may only be 55,000 Greenlanders, they are Danish nationals, and whatever happens to Greenland will impact all Danes.

I'm putting off doing some housework 😆

Or am I a far right Republican troll... 🤔

whatever happens to Greenland will impact all Danes.

Will it? How? Imagine if Argentina had won the Falklands War. Would that have impacted all Brits?

No

Not if it meant the country becoming like America, because a million wouldn't be recompense for the obscene 'healthcare' system which can bankrupt you if you become seriously ill and happen to be working at the time (or lose your job because of it); the awful work culture which owns you a gives you barely any holiday, but can drop you at almost no notice; the ownership of guns putting lives in danger. No thanks.

The female population has already been severely mistreated by Denmark with teenage girls forced to have coils fitted without their consent - the government should have been prosecuted over this.

Definitely!

Your $100,000 or even $1,000,000 will not go far once you have to pay additional taxes, private healthcare and education costs for your entire family. And if you are planning to leave? Even $1,000,000 would not buy much of a new house and life in most nearby countries. You'd be leaving your entire ancestral lifestyle if you left too.

It didn't work out for Scotland in the 1700s. Robert Burns wrote about it 'A parcel of rogues for a nation.' And it led to the union of parliament which didn't do much for Scotland.

Greenland don't see themselves a 'colony'.

I mean, it's not hard really to work out what the difference would be.

Last poll showed that 96% of greenlanders oppose being part of the US. That should be good enough for the orange twatbadger to leave them the fuck alone.

Our land doesn't belong to us, we are custodians for future generations.

Yep. Take the money and leave.

Denmark benefits, rightly or wrongly, from Greenland being Danish, in terms of the soft power and influence it gives an otherwise small and arguably insignificant nation of little consequence. It affords Denmark prestige and political leverage in some instances, at the cost of paying for some of Greenland's infrastructure and social costs. 'Losing' Greenland may not directly impact 'the Dane on the street' immediately, but Denmark's standing in the region would shift, and it's power to influence it's future would wane. I'm not Danish, but 'Denmark adjacent', and this is how I read the situation.

No.

No, for 2 reasons.

1. The money would be his cryptocurrency to completely useless.

1. I could not live under his rule, and the US system is currently broken so it won't even get better after he has left office.

No.

So Greenland is useful to Denmark, as it would be to the US.

Would I give up and join the US for $1 million if I were in Greenland? Absolutely — and here’s why.

If someone offered me $1 million (≈£750,000) tax-free, I would accept without hesitation.

If you invest that £750k sensibly in global equities, a long-term return of ~11% nominal is entirely typical historically.

Over 20 years, that grows to roughly £6.5m nominal, which is about £3.6m in today’s money after inflation.

If you’re 40 now, that puts you at 60 with a real-terms pot of £3.6m.

From there, you can draw the money down over 30 years (age 60–90), invested more cautiously at 5–7% nominal (around 3% real). That supports a real income of roughly £180,000 per year, indexed to inflation, without running out.

That’s financial independence for life.

Who wouldn’t accept that?

Yes, you give up certain things — but many of those can be negotiated (for example, healthcare). In return, you:
Remove retirement risk entirely
De-risk your life financially
Can pay off a mortgage quickly
Can retire early or work purely by choice

And if you have children, the logic is even stronger. Invest the money for them and you give them permanent financial security — freedom from being trapped into working purely to survive.

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Now look at it from the US government’s perspective.
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Greenland is believed to contain around 13 billion barrels of oil. At a conservative $70 per barrel, that’s about $900 billion in gross revenue over time.

In the US system, governments typically take ~50% of production value through royalties and taxes. That’s roughly $450 billion to the state.

There are only about 56,000 adults in Greenland. Paying each $1 million costs around $56 billion.

So you’re spending ~$56bn to potentially unlock hundreds of billions in long-term strategic and economic value — before even considering geopolitics, shipping routes, rare earths, or military positioning.

That’s an extraordinary return on investment.

So yes — if someone offered me £750k tax-free today, I’d absolutely take it.

I’d invest it, keep enjoying my job without stress, and know that my future — and my family’s — is permanently secure.

If Trump is talking about $100k now, he’s likely just testing the water. If the number ever became real and meaningful, a lot of people would say yes.

I know I would.