A Trump Condominium for Greenland

President Trump told “the incredible people of Greenland” on Tuesday that “if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.” If Danish statesmen are canny enough to propose it, there is a solution that would be a win for Denmark and Greenland as well as the U.S. And it might vault Copenhagen to the enviable position of Washington’s closest European partner.

Danish attachment to Greenland rests on history, sentiment and geopolitics. Blunt U.S. overtures to gain sway over Greenland trample all of these, generating a reflexive Danish resistance.