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  • In order to exercise control over those resources, they need to build an enormous amount of infrastructure that necessarily tramples Greenlandic autonomy. There is no existing legal mechanism for that without the consent of Greenlanders. Seizing the island through military or other means is how they do that.

    Or to be more blunt, the enormous amount of infrastructure cannot be build without the genocide of Greenlanders happening first, the exact reason why you have to completely cut down trees and bulldoze a field of wild plants before laying down concrete. I suspect this is the real reason why the annexation has to happen (assuming it actually happens). The US can more or less do everything already except for the genocide of Greenlanders because I don’t think even a vassal as servile as Denmark will look the other way while Danish citizens are being exterminated. But if those Danish citizens either de jure or de facto cease to hold Danish citizenship, then the US gets what it wants (extractive infrastructure/penal colony being build without an Indigenous population to fight back) and Denmark gets what it wants (saving face by having an excuse to avoid directly confronting the US ethnically cleansing a people holding Danish passports).

    The British did something similar to Chagos. The Indigenous Chagossians inhabited those islands, but the US wanted a naval base in the Indian Ocean, so what did the British do? They deported every single Chagossian from their native land, thereby ethnically cleansing those islands of their Indigenous population. All for the sake of building a naval base at Diego Garcia for the USians so that they can project power in the Indian Ocean.