Ben Taub

Yeah, it has taken a tremendous toll in Greenland.

You know, there's sort of shocking figures of the mental health toll that it's taken just in the past year.

A recent health survey by the Center for Public Health in Greenland noted a more than fourfold increase in the past year alone.

In the percentage of Greenlanders who show symptoms of psychological distress, 82% of respondents said that Trump's annexation rhetoric negatively affects their everyday lives.

And one in four said that they have difficulty sleeping.

There's also Greenlanders who have left the country out of fear of an invasion and moved to Denmark for safety reasons.

It just is the case that as Americans, we are represented by a government that has a very, very powerful military and is a superpower.

As Stephen Walt put it in an essay for Foreign Affairs earlier this year, we have become a predatory hegemon.

And the people on the receiving end of this are a small indigenous population in a country that has received very little attention in recent decades.

And in fact, throughout all of history.

And now suddenly they're thrust into the spotlight in the most unpleasant, most hostile possible way.

And at the end of the day, it's the people who are representing us who are doing this to them.

No.

How do they talk about this?

A lot of Greenlanders are just completely exhausted.

I mean, I think that...

Trump's initial sort of interest in Greenland was in some ways regarded at first as a kind of opportunity.

This was a way of potentially luring greater investment from the outside world, not just America, but from Europe, frankly, from Denmark by, you know, some Greenlandic politicians saw the US interest as a kind of cudgel, a piece of leverage to use against Denmark in their own domestic negotiations for greater control over their destiny.

And now it's kind of morphed into something where people are just completely exhausted and worn down.

They don't trust the United States.