Greenland’s Elections This Month Weren’t About Trump. They Were Mostly About Fish.

The Greenlandic trawler the BINGO III fishes for shrimp and prawns off Disko Island. Gordon Leggett/Wikimedia Commons

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Last week, Greenlanders trudged through snow and ice to cast ballots in their most closely watched parliamentary elections in modern history—possibly ever.

Just two months earlier, Donald Trump had returned to power, vowing to achieve what American presidents had tried and failed to do before: bring the world’s largest island under Washington’s direct control. Since World War II, the United States has boasted a large security presence in the autonomous Arctic territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. During a speech before Congress a week before the March 11 election, Trump repeated his offer for Greenlanders to join the United States but vowed to take the island “one way or the other.”

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