[Amberdawn]

11,000 per resident.

[Enchante]

Why on earth should an independent Greenland be part of “Europe”?? It’s not in Europe.

[Cowboy Bob]

I wonder how they’ll do without the subsidy from Denmark.

[Forgotten Amendments]

The neocons will insist that we send in troops to keep “the homeland” safe.

[Billthedrill]

Man, that place will sure hold a lot of Somalian and Syrian, ah, “refugees”.

[Cronos]

With a gross domestic product of $2.2 billion in 2015, an independent Greenland would be the poorest country in Europe along with San Marino.

San Marino is not poor. It's GDP is $1.9 billion, but the GDP per capita is $49K -- in comparison the GDP per cap of the USA is $61K and of Japan is $40K.

San Marino is definitely not poor

[DaxtonBrown]

If anyone would benefit from global warming, it would be Greenland.

[Moltke]

“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”

“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”

“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”

“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”

“... when to secede, and how to do so without impoverishing the island.”

“Rich in unexploited natural resources, Greenland...”

Nope, I don’t see any way either.

[Truth29]

If Greenland really plans to declare independence, the Russians will be right there offering all sorts of inducements to let them explore the resources under the ice.

[Hawthorn]

If Denmark leaves Greenland, we need to occupy the place — for strategic reasons.

And maybe joint “condiminium” rule with Canada would be an option.

But if we and the Canadians maintain a 100% hands-off posture, the Chinese will surely try to take over the mineral resources — while maybe letting the Russians have Thule.

[Mastador1]

"More than 2.5 million years ago Greenland looked like the green Alaskan tundra, before it was covered by the second largest body of ice on Earth," the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said in a statement Thursday.

And supposedly it's now threatened by global warming? Yeah and Faeries wear boots!

[Buckeye McFrog]

While Denmark’s constitution recognizes the island’s right to decide on its own independence, if it became a sovereign nation it would lose the much-needed subsidies, which make up 60 percent of Greenland’s annual budget.

Sounds like Puerto Rico with icebergs.