Posted on 01/21/2026 5:20:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereignty of nation states.
During a panel at the World Economic Forum’s “America House” in the Swiss ski resort on Wednesday, the Reform UK leader said he had “no doubt” that the world would be safer if a “strong America” was in Greenland “because of the geopolitics of the high north, because of the retreating ice caps and because of the continued expansionism of Russian icebreakers, of Chinese investment”.
Speaking just after Donald Trump appeared to rule out taking position of Greenland by force, while doubling down on his demand to annex the “big, beautiful piece of ice”, Farage insisted that while he “agreed strategically” with Trump he believed in “nation states … not globalist structures”.
“[I]f you believe in the nation state and not globalist structures, you believe in sovereignty,” he said. “And if you believe in sovereignty, you believe in the principle of national self-determination.”
He added: “You must respect the rights and views of the Greenlanders, because that is what national self-determination is, and that’s a key part.”
Farage is a longtime critic of Davos, describing it in a video as a place where decisions are made that “bow down to the European Union” and calling the attenders “people deciding our futures in Swiss ski resorts”.
During the forum he insisted that stance had not changed. “For those of us at Davos that are fighting the globalists, belief in national self-determination is at the root of what people like me, albeit the minority here, believe in,” he said. “So I think that’s really, really important.”
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“because of the retreating ice caps “
Ugh
couldn’t be worse than Denmark
unbelievably... they’ve been sterilizing the native female population for decades
The UK would be a better place if Nigel Farage took over.
Greenland is awfully close to us to be taken over by the wrong foreign power. I tend to believe it would be better if the U.S. took it over ,but since it is owned by Denmark, that must be taken under consideration also. I don’t know if Thule Pituffik) is able to handle all situations that might arise there.
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