The Donald Trump administration contemplates offering each inhabitant of Greenland an annual check of $ 10,000 in its plan to take control of the Danish island, says The New York Times.
Republican Executive representatives consider that the cost of this disbursement could be compensated with the income from the extraction of natural resources of that territory, which could include rare earths, copper, gold, uranium and oil.
The United States wants to explore this path to annex that Arctic Island for its strategic importance and reiterates its inhabitants that Denmark has abandoned them. The study studied could serve to adhere to the cause of President Trump, says the newspaper.
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The New York Times points out that Trump analyzes the possibility of replacing the 600 million dollars in subsidies that Denmark currently gives the island for those 10,000 dollars annually to each Greenlandic citizen.
Greenland, according to data from the Danish government, is officially the largest island in the world that is not a continent. It was a Danish colony until 1953, when it was redefined as a District district, and has about 56,000 inhabitants that live in 20% of the territory that is not covered with ice or snow.
“We need Greenland for national security and even for international security and we are working with everyone involved to try and get it,” Trump said in March against Congress, while the local executive has stressed that the island is neither for sale nor wants to be American.
In full controversy unleashed by the intentions of Washington, the American vice president, JD Vance, visited in March, along with his wife –usha Vance -, the US spatial base located there, but the fact of not having had an official invitation of the local authorities caused his trip to be reduced only to that enclave.
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The eve at night, the Pentagon announced the dismissal of the commander of said military base, after it was known that he sent a letter to all the people under his command by distancing himself from the position shown by Vance in his visit.
Colonel Susannah Meyers was fired on Thursday for “loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” says the statement issued by the space force, which has responsibility on the Arctic Base.
With EFE information
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