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Over the weekend Donald Trump launched a military raid on Venezuela that involved bombing the capital city Caracas and capturing President Nicolás Maduro. The country’s controversial leader is set to be arraigned on drug trafficking charges here in the US, but Trump has also announced plans to move major American oil companies into Venezuela and is considering taking similar action in neighboring Colombia. Trump also doesn’t seem to be backing down on his interest in potentially annexing the Danish territory of Greenland (which, incidentally, suspended all new oil exploration in 2021). Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen has already warned Trump against taking over Greenland, but today, Björk has chimed in with another idea: Greenland declaring independence.
Björk, whose home country of Iceland was also under Danish rule from 1814 to 1944, issued a statement today sharing sympathy for Greenlanders. “Still today the Danish are treating Greenlanders like they are second class humans,” Björk wrote, sharing recent reports of Denmark enacting forced contraception and discriminatory “parenting competency” tests upon Greenlanders. “Colonialism has repeatedly given me horror chills up my back, and the chance that my fellow Greenlanders might go from one cruel coloniser to another is too brutal to even imagine.”
Here’s Björk’s full statement:
i wish all greenlanders blessing in their fight for independence
icelanders are extremely relieved that they managed to break from the danish in 1944 ,
we didn´t loose our language ( my children would be speaking danish now )
and i burst with sympathy for greenlanders , repeatedly ,
especially like when the case came up about the forced contraception ,
where 4500 girls as young as 12 got IUD without their knowledge between 1966 and 1970
4500 girls as young as 12 were fitted
…. they are my age and younger … childless ….
and still today the danish are treating greenlanders like they are second class humans
removing children from their parents in 2025 !colonialism has repeatedly given me horror chills up my back ,
and the chance that my fellow greenlanders might go from one cruel coloniser to another
is too brutal to even imagine .
“úr öskunni í eldinn” , like we say in icelandicdear greenlanders
declare independence !!!!
sympathetic wishes from your neighbours
warmthness
björk