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In his European Chronicle in issue number 436 of May 2020, Jean-François Drevet looked into the news that had been circulating for some months that President Trump was studying the possibility of purchasing Greenland. Drevet described the broadly independent status of that territory within the kingdom of Denmark—but also as part of the European Union—and laid out the various interests in play. Not much has changed since then, except that Donald Trump’s interest was at the time almost exclusively economic (mineral resources and the country’s geographical location on polar routes), whereas in 2025 a re-elected Trump also seems driven by a thirst for neo-colonial conquest. Might he achieve his ends? Five years after the initial alarm, how is Greenland reacting to this new US attempt to take over its territory? Jean-François Drevet explores three possible scenarios: maintenance of the status quo, a bid for independence (but what sort of independence?) or Greenland sliding into the arms of the Americans.