The United States is reportedly considering an effort to bribe Greenlanders to leave Denmark and join the US, offering $100,000 as a reward. Sources tell Reuters that U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person in exchange for the citizens to secede from Denmark.

Denmark is home to a population of approximately 57,000. Therefore, the pay plan to convince the Greenlanders to leave for the US is an ambitious one. Furthermore, authorities in Copenhagen and Nuuk have insisted that Greenland is not for sale. However, Trump has spoken several times in the past.

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Donald Trump has long argued that the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland on several grounds, including that it is rich in minerals needed for advanced military applications. He has also said the Western Hemisphere broadly needs to be under the geopolitical influence of Washington. Therefore, instead of controlling the country, he hopes to purge it of its citizens.

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The tactic is among various plans being discussed by the White House for acquiring Greenland, including the potential use of the U.S. military. However, it risks coming off as overly transactional and even degrading to a population that has long debated its own independence and its economic dependence on Denmark. “Enough is enough … No more fantasies about annexation,” Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump again told reporters the U.S. needed to acquire the island.

Other European powers have also spoken out against the US plan to seize Denmark and secede its people to the United States. On Tuesday, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain, and Denmark issued a joint statement, saying only Greenland and Denmark can decide matters regarding their relations.