Denmark penniless? Plz check your facts: While we Danes like to complain about our politicians, they have actually for the last 40+ years acted very financially responsibly. There is minimal public debt, yearly surplus on the public budget, huge trade and payment surplus with the outside world every year, minimal unemployment. The politicians plan ahead on a 30 year scale trying to take into account changes in demographics, future needs etc. It does not matter on any of this if the government is right-leaning or left-leaning. This makes domestic politics foreseeable and frankly a bit boring, but much to be preferred to the drama and lunacy of what we may observe in the US. With all the resources domestically available to the American people and for all the wonderful American ingenuity it is a scandal why your politicians (regardless if they are right or left leaning) are never able to balance a budget, and never able to bring the debt down or make American productivity competitive abroad. Your federal debt and your trade and payment deficit with the outside world keep spiraling out of control. Do you realize that it now cost you more to pay just the interests of federal debt, than to run your military (including pension and healthcare for veterans, development costs etc.)? Good luck with more tax cuts coming. Interests are still very low, if interests start to rise, what do you think this will mean for the federal budget?

@@paluhansen2452 the whole video is bs!

Denmark does not control the natural ressources in Greenland. Greenland does. It is weird that Americans are being told that Denmark prevents the extraction of natural ressources. It is simply not true. The local government in greenland can extract all the ressources that they want but it is just not the gold mine that MAGA people are making up. They can not fint international investors to do it because it is not profitable. It is that simple. There is not conspiracy or Danish laws behind it.

It is not up to Denmark or to anybody else to "use Greenland". Greenland has the right to decide what happens to their resources. A few things on this: a) We we only know of the existence of valuable resources in Greenland thanks to state funded geological research. It is Danish tax payers that have financed this over the years and are financing this. Until very recently, the research was almost 100 % publicly funded, in recent years the public funding is still about 70 %. So Denmark has not been "sitting on" anything but rather invested heavily in discovering for the potential benefit of the future of Greenland. If the US would publicly invest similar amounts relative to its GDP in geological research in the US the US would likely discover within its own border similar resources to those that are available in Greenland (there was a recent discovery in California, if I am not mistaken). b) As we speak there are 76 mining projects in Greenland. The companies behind these projects have their home in: 1) Commonwealth countries: 56 (23 from the UK, 23 from Canada, 4 from Australia etc.); 2) Denmark/Greenland: 12; 3) EU Countries (e.g. Sweden): 6; 4) India: 1. 5) US: 1. Plz note that there are no Chinese and of course no Russian projects, neither China nor Russia have investments in Greenland, it is a myth (there has historically been some Chinese interest, but never anything that materialized. So again Denmark is not sitting on anything, but rather investing like the Canadians, the Brits, and unlike the US. c) There are obstacles to a huge mining adventure in Greenland that cannot or should not be removed: The climate and geographical conditions are a major obstacle (this we cannot change). As I said Greenland is in control of its own resources and they have strict laws to safeguard the environment, and give the workers good and safe conditions and decent wages, and they want profits fairly between shareholders and the people of Greenland (I think this should not be changed. d) There is one obstacle to a mining adventure in Greenland that could profitably for everyone be done something about. It would be helpful if the US, EU/Denmark came together and guaranteed minimum prices on some of the minerals that can be extracted in Greenland, minerals that are now largely extracted in China. China control the market, so investors are unlikely to invest in Greenland, because China can swamp the market once a new mining company in Greenland start to produce and thus drive the prizes down to a level, where the extremely heavy investments become unsustainable. So again, if the US decides that these resources are strategic, guaranteed minimum prizes will be the way forward, much cheaper surely than war with Greenland/Denmark, hostile takeover, maintaining the administration of Greenland, occupation etc.

Erik the red became outlaw and exciled from Iceland, like his dad he killed a man. His dad Thorvald Åsvaldsson was exciled from Norway and camed to Iceland

Which other indigenous people have been given their own country?

which indigenous? Northerners extinct or leaved Greenland. And we survived!

Thus by the law in effect today: "Law no. 473 of 12 June 2009 on Greenland's Self-Government WE MARGRETHE THE SECOND, by God's grace Queen of Denmark, do indeed: The Danish Parliament has adopted and We have ratified the following law with Our consent: Recognizing that the Greenlandic people are a people according to international law with the right to self-determination, the law is based on a desire to promote equality and mutual respect in the partnership between Denmark and Greenland. Accordingly, the law is based on an agreement between Naalakkersuisut and the Danish government as equal parties.2