> to become some sort of Venezuela of the north
if it becomes US territory would it not be more like be more like Alaska than Venezuela?
> full rights as EU citizens and local autonomy to decide who gets the mining concessions
There is no such thing as an EU citizen - people are citizens of EU states. Would an independent Greenland join the EU? Would it join NATO? I can see advantages for a small (in population) country with rich national resources playing the big powers against each other.
Indigenous Greenlanders have also been treated pretty badly by Denmark, even very recently, not just a long time ago when it was a colony:
https://www.arctictoday.com/a-view-from-greenland-about-forc...