The Greenland question is a delicate one for Denmark, whose prime minister officially apologised only recently for spearheading a 1950s social experiment which saw Inuit children removed from their families to be re-educated as "model Danes". Last week, Greenland's leader said the territory should free itself from "the shackles of colonialism."

Charlie Kirk came back from a two-day trip to Greenland convinced that its people want to throw off the mantle of Danish control and become part of the American empire. The 31-year-old MAGA youth leader joined his friend Donald Trump Jr.

President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland,