The question poised asks whether the United States government will issue an official statement, or pass a legal formality to indicate the formal inclusion of Greenland as a territory (or state) of the United States by or before 31st December 2030.
Both the US and Danish governments, their official spokespersons, or an internationally recognized body such as the United Nations must officially communicate annexation, in order for the prediction to be valid.
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3.00Will probably never be a military annexation, but Trump can apply pressure in different ways. Embargo, sanctions, revoke defense guarantee for Denmark. Make it more costly for Denmark to keep Greenland (Greenland is already subsidized by/dependent on Denmark) than to relinquish it to the US.
@MalachiteEagle The EU is entirely dependent on the US in both trade and security. If the US says it’s us or Denmark, no one is siding with Denmark.
@BrunoParga Thanks for the clarification. Yes, the spirit of the question is whether the US will have international recognition of governing Greenland, likely through purchase. Thanks for the clarification. This is my first manifold question- is it bad practice to amend the question after users have already bet?
@hemocrates welcome! Good job with an interesting question.
I think it's best to err on the side of caution and just add a clarification in the question description (not the title) that any legal term - annexation, cession, purchase, transfer, accession or anything like that - is valid, so long as America instead of the Kingdom of Denmark is the sovereign state ruling Greenland.
I'd probably also make it explicit whether consent from the Greenlandic autonomous government is required or not for this question to resolve YES.