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Greenland's authorities unveiled a caller brochure connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) offering proposal to the colonisation successful the lawsuit of a "crisis" successful the territory, which U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to prehend from state Denmark.
Guidance includes stockpiling nutrient and water, hunting weapons and ammunition.
The papers is "an security policy", said Self-Sufficiency Minister Peter Borg astatine a property league successful Nuuk, the Greenlandic capital.
"We don't expect to person to usage it," Borg said. Mr. Trump connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) demanded "immediate" talks connected his bid to power Greenland but said helium would not usage subject unit to instrumentality the Arctic island.
Work connected the brochure, titled "Prepared for Crises — Be Self-Sufficient for Five Days", began past twelvemonth "against a backdrop of powerfulness outages of varying duration", according to the Greenland government.
The guidance recommends storing 5 days' worthy of food, 3 litres of h2o per idiosyncratic per day, toilet paper, a battery-powered radio, positive weapons, ammunition and sportfishing equipment.
Greenland's 57,000-strong colonisation — astir 90% indigenous Inuit radical — has agelong traditions of hunting and sportfishing arsenic the superior means of subsistence.
On Tuesday (January 20, 2026), Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said a subject cognition against Greenland was "unlikely", but that the Danish autonomous territory indispensable nevertheless beryllium ready.
Since returning to powerfulness past year, Mr. Trump has repeatedly said helium wants to summation power of Greenland to antagonistic Russian and Chinese advances successful the Arctic and guarantee planetary stableness — the fearfulness of his European and NATO allies.
The U.S. President said Wednesday (January 21, 2026) successful Davos that helium "won't usage force" to instrumentality the island, portion calling for "immediate negotiations" to get it.
According to a January 2025 poll, 85% of Greenlanders reason joining the United States, with lone six% successful favour.
