It costs Denmark a lot to manage with very few Greenlander Danes and to no real advantage (and the price no where near trillions).
dodger: "It costs Denmark a lot to manage with very few Greenlander Danes and to no real advantage (and the price no where near trillions)."
The cost of Denmark's subsidies to Greenland represents around 10% of Denmark's annual defense spending -- for the US, that would be the equivalent of nearly $100 billion per year.
Greenland's area is about 836,000 square miles, meaning any cost per square mile over $1,000 puts the total into the trillions of dollars.
Greenland has many untapped natural resources, including rare earth metals, gold, coal and uranium -- though there's no available estimate for the total value of such resources.
It might be $trillions, or not, and how much is buried under ice too thick to reach?
Would Denmark want to sell Greenland?
Would Greenlanders want to become Americans?
Who knows?