Sune Rasmussen
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A lot of American and Greenlanding business people that I speak to say they hope that this agreement will ease some of the geopolitical tension and they hope it will drive investment and also remove some of the stigma, frankly, that many Greenlanders have attached to
Official yet, but we do know the contours of the deal, both from President Trump's statement, but also from brief statements from the Danish and Greenlandic governments.
And it seems like the deal follows a previous 1951 treaty, which was amended in 2004, which basically gives the US the right to station as many troops and build as many bases on Greenland as it wants to.
Long as it consults with or informs Denmark and Greenland about it.
What does make this deal different, it seems, is that it will last, as President Trump says, forever or in perpetuity.
The previous treaty was contingent on Greenland remaining part of Denmark, and it also was contingent on NATO existing.
And I think this deal, as far as we understand it, will last beyond a potential
Potential Greenlandic independence from Denmark or a potential collapse of NATO.
So that seems to be the main difference.
I think in Greenland and Denmark this will come as a relief because in the Danish Prime Minister statement, she says that this is notably a deal that respects Greenlanding and Danish sovereignty.
And that was the red line for Greenland and Denmark.
They were not willing to concede territorial sovereignty over any part of Greenland.
When it comes to the White House, I've spoken to officials in and around the White House who speak to the president.
who for a long time have acknowledged that whatever security designs the US had on Greenland, whatever security interests it wanted to protect, it could do so with the existing treaty.
And they were sort of trying to convince the president that maybe he should settle for less than what he was proclaiming in public.
And that seems to be what he's done now.
Will change on paper.
I do think that the US will use this deal as an occasion to ramp up its military presence in Greenland.
But where things will change, I think, is on the investment side and on the economic side.
A lot of American and Greenlandic business people that I speak to say they hope that this agreement will ease some of the geopolitical tension that has made the investment climate around Greenland very
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