Summary
Danish King Frederik has redesigned the royal coat of arms to prominently feature symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, replacing the historical three crowns, in an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump’s renewed interest in buying Greenland.
The change underscores Denmark’s commitment to maintaining its territorial integrity.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede firmly rejected Trump’s suggestion, declaring, “Greenland is ours.”
This marks the fourth revision of Denmark’s coat of arms since 1819 and highlights Greenland’s century-long political and cultural ties to Denmark despite U.S. military presence on the island.
Sure, if you can convince everyone else to go along with that. And also be prepared to defend yourselves when the new owners show up with their army and say they own it now. Good luck defending that, both in war and in international court.
Who “everyone else”?
All other countries respect Danish sovereignty. The international court does not recognise breakaways by referenda anyway. See Catalonia, Scotland and countless other examples.
If anything, an attempted hostile takeover of Denmark would have us find out whether Swedish coastal subs can replicate their exercise results in actual combat and sink a few US carriers.
Also, the official status quo of the consequences of a broad US invasion of Europe is that the French will glass Washington and most major US cities with their nuclear subs, while international trade will be paralysed and the Chinese will become the sole superpower.
Under Danish law Greenland does have the right to unilaterally declare independence. Seriously doubt that Greenland would bend the knee to the US, though, from political reasons (the Greenland right is to the left of the US Overton window) to, well, as a US state they wouldn’t have the right to declare independence. Joining Canada would be thinkable, the EU pretty much infinitely more likely.
Everyone else being all the other citizens who were given the money. You might take it and say nah, but not everyone else will.
The Danish state will say nah, not the Greenland people.