

Yeah, they definitely don’t come off as apolitical monks seeking enlightenment. Maybe Yoda…
Certainly arrogant and a little too aware and appreciative of their own power and what it could get them.
Source: Outside of ESB and Rogue One, I’m not much of a Star Wars fan.
I think the implicit assumption is if they didn’t take the offer (“easy way”), they’d then get the “hard way,” in which the US receives the same end result, but no one in Greenland gets the million. It churns the bile in my guts that anyone on earth is even having this discussion with a modicum of seriousness. Greenland is for Greenlanders.