Amelia Lester

So self-determined.

Self-determined.

After World War II, Denmark said, you have home rule, you're semi-autonomous, you can have an independence referendum.

They haven't gone around to having that yet, but

All indications are they do not want to be sold to the United States.

They're not completely happy with Denmark being in charge, but they're moving towards a place where they will be their own country.

Yeah.

It's actually not a thing.

America has tried it before though.

In 1946, President Truman said to Denmark, look, I'll give you $100 million in gold for it.

And Denmark said, no, but feel free to come and put military bases here because Denmark and the US are very good friends.

And the US, in fact, has a military base there.

But these days, Denmark can't even sell it if it wanted to, because it has said that Greenland is in charge of Greenland's future.

So it is simply not possible for Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States.

Look, it does, but they're under glaciers and they're quite hard to get to.

It's sort of like Venezuela has a lot of oil, but the oil's really hard to get to.

So I think in both the case of Venezuela and Greenland, we're kind of trying to find reasons why Trump would want to do this very silly thing and we're retrofitting these explanations onto them.

But they don't really make sense.

Yeah, no.

I don't think most people in the US really know where Greenland is or particularly covet Greenland.