Hmm. Just yesterday, a Danish immigrant friend of mine was all weepy about the threat Trump is posing to his former country's colony.

He spoke of the “peaceful nature” of the people of his native country, and I responded that, as someone with English ancestors in his heritage, they and I might question the tradition of Viking pacifism. Indeed, because of the Danes’ history of rape and pillage on the island, I probably had Viking blood in my gene pool, just like him. And because those invaders also stole land from the natives and settled in – their descendants are still there — I might call him “brother and neighbor”.

Now we’re hearing from the Greenlanders themselves; I’ll pass along this story, which has been reported for years, but I forgot to mention it yesterday, to my distraught friend, and I’m sure he’ll feel better.

Greenlanders speak out against Danish rule after decades of forced sterilization, poor living conditions: ‘They stole our future’

NUUK, Greenland — Native Greenlander Amarok Petersen was 27 years old when she learned the gut-wrenching truth about why she couldn’t have children — and that Denmark was to blame. 

Suffering from severe uterine problems, a medical doctor discovered an IUD birth control device in her body that she didn’t know she had. 

Danish doctors had implanted it when she was just 13 as part of a population control program for thousands of native Greenlandic girls and women. 

“I will never have children,” Petersen told The Post, with tears of anger and sorrow welling in her eyes. “That choice was taken from me.”

While the government of Denmark officially apologized last year for decades of forced sterilization of Indigenous women and girls, the horrific mistreatment has cast a long shadow on the island that has become the center of an international ownership fight.

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This week, the Danes hosted European troops for military exercises on Greenland, asserting they are protecting the island from outside powers — particularly the United States. But for many Inuit, Denmark itself has long been the real threat.