Greenland Residents 'Considering Options' While Eyeing Fleet Of Warships
Local Resident Offered $100,000 And Mar-a-Lago Timeshare For Ancestral Fishing Grounds
[Danish Prime Minister nervously watches three F-35s conduct 'routine scenic flights' over Nuuk]
Greenlandic residents gather to discuss offers while naval vessels maintain 'routine positioning' in harbor.
As the third day of Operation Manifest Destiny 2.0 draws to a close, Greenlandic residents are reportedly “considering their options” while watching a growing fleet of American warships conduct what the Pentagon continues to describe as “scheduled exercises” in their harbor.
Sources confirm that negotiations between U.S. real estate agents and local property owners have intensified, with offers now including not just cash but also an array of incentives that one agent described as “the full American dream package.”
Hans Egede, 67, a lifelong fisherman from Nuuk, says he was approached yesterday by a team of four Keller Williams agents who offered him $100,000 in cash, a Mar-a-Lago timeshare, and a lifetime supply of Trump Steaks in exchange for his family’s ancestral fishing grounds — a stretch of coastline his family has worked for seven generations.
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They kept calling it a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.’ I said my family has been here for 200 years. They said, ‘Exactly — time for an upgrade.’ I don’t know what that means.
“At first I thought it was a joke,” Egede told Patriot Network through a translator. “Then I saw the aircraft carrier. Then I saw two more aircraft carriers. Now I am less sure it is a joke.”
The Mar-a-Lago timeshare offer has become a particular point of confusion among residents. “They keep showing us pictures of palm trees,” said Ilulissat resident Minik Hansen, 52. “They say we can use it two weeks per year. I asked if I could bring my sled dogs. They said there would be ‘valet parking’ and I should not worry.”
Operation Manifest Destiny 2.0 — By The Numbers
- 50,000 — Realtors deployed
- 56,000 — Greenland residents to convince
- $100,000 — Cash offered per resident
- 3 — Aircraft carriers “passing through”
- 85% — Greenlanders who reject U.S. ownership
- 0% — Chance that matters to Trump
Danish officials have grown increasingly anxious as the naval presence expands. Prime Minister Frederiksen held an emergency cabinet meeting this morning, after which she announced that Denmark “fully supports Greenlandic self-determination” and would “not stand in the way of any decisions Greenlandic people freely make, freely, without any pressure, which there is none of.”
The statement was released moments after a fourth aircraft carrier appeared on the horizon.
“We want to be very clear,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. “Denmark believes in democracy. If Greenlandic people choose, of their own free will, while watching what appears to be the entire Atlantic Fleet, to accept American citizenship, that is their right as free people.”
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We reject the characterization that anyone is being pressured. These are simply enthusiastic real estate professionals doing what they do best. The military vessels are a completely separate matter and we encourage everyone to ignore them.
Not all residents are opposed to the offers. Siku Olsen, 28, a recent graduate who has struggled to find work in Nuuk’s limited job market, told reporters she was “genuinely considering” the American proposal. “I’ve always wanted to visit Florida,” she said. “And they’re offering citizenship. In Greenland, we have six months of darkness. In Florida, they have Disney World.”
However, most residents express deep ambivalence. Community elder Nivi Petrussen, 81, has refused to meet with any agents, posting a sign on her door in Greenlandic that translates to: “No solicitors. No realtors. No aircraft carriers.”
“My grandmother remembers when the Americans had the base here during the Cold War,” Petrussen said. “She always said: ‘They are very loud, and they think they know better than everyone.’ I see nothing has changed.”
Pentagon officials continue to insist the military presence is “coincidental,” though sources confirm that fighter jets have been conducting low-altitude passes over homes whose owners have not yet responded to offers. The flights have been characterized as “routine training” that happens to occur “primarily over addresses flagged by our real estate partners as ‘pending.’”
At press time, a Greenlandic official reported that RE/MAX agents have begun offering “limited-time bonuses” including free moving services, a 55-inch television, and what one agent called “a personal guarantee that you will love freedom.”