Trump: «Anything aside from US management over Greenland is unacceptable» | EUROtoday

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“The United States needs Greenland for national security reasons.” Thus Donald Trump on Thruth stating that “NATO becomes much more formidable and effective with Greenland in US hands. Anything less than this is unacceptable.” The Arctic island “is critical to the Golden Dome we are building. NATO should lead the way for us to get it. If we don’t do it, Russia or China will, and that can’t happen! From a military perspective, without the vast power of the United States, NATO would not be an effective force or a deterrent, not even remotely!”

“From a military point of view – claims the US president – without the vast power of the United States, which I largely built during my first mandate and which I am now taking to a new and even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or a deterrent, not even remotely! They know it, and I know it too. NATO becomes much more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES”.

These are Trump’s proclamations. But there have been additionally Danish bulletins within the hours previous the White House summit. Denmark ”continues to strengthen its navy presence in Greenland”, Denmark’s Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen instructed AFP, as US stress on Greenland grows. “We will continue to strengthen our military presence in Greenland, but we will also focus more within NATO on carrying out more exercises and on a greater NATO presence in the Arctic,” the minister mentioned hours earlier than a gathering between Greenlandic, Danish and US officers on the White House on the way forward for Greenland.

The diplomacies of Denmark and Greenland try to persuade the Trump administration to again down on its goals for the Arctic territory, which threaten to interrupt up NATO.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Nuuk counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, will meet US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the White House right now, January 14, just a few hours after the island’s Prime Minister declared that, if compelled to decide on, Greenland would go for Denmark.