JD Vance to affix talks with Denmark over way forward for Greenland after repeated threats of US takeover | EUROtoday

US vp JD Vance will host talks with Denmark in Washington D.C. after repeated threats of a takeover of the territory – regardless of widespread backlash from European allies.

Trump has been adamant that he wants the territory “right now” and claims it is important for America’s “national security”, in feedback which have precipitated alarm in NATO nations.

The escalation prompted Denmark’s international minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Vivian Moltzfeldt to request a gathering with US secretary of state Marco Rubio – which Vance has now requested to affix.

“US Vice President JD Vance also wanted to participate in the meeting, and he will host the meeting, which will therefore be held at the White House,” Rasmussen informed reporters in Copenhagen on Tuesday.

“Our reason for seeking the meeting we have now been given was to move this whole discussion… into a meeting room where we can look each other in the eye and talk about these things.”

It is feared Vance’s inclusion within the talks will heighten tensions as he has traditionally been vocal in his assist for the US seizing the territory from Denmark, a member of NATO.

Last week, he warned Europe that they wanted to take Trump “seriously” on his aspiration to amass it.

”What we’re asking our European associates to do is to take the safety of that land mass extra severely, as a result of if they are not, the United States goes to must do one thing about it,” he mentioned.

“What that is, I’ll leave that to the president as we continue to engage in diplomacy with our European friends and everybody on this particular topic.”

In March final yr, he mentioned the nation “has not done a good job at keeping Greenland safe” and accused Denmark of “passing it all off” to the Americans.

Several politicians have warned {that a} US takeover of Greenland would successfully spell the top of NATO, together with US democratic senator Chris Murphy who mentioned: “It would be the end of Nato, right? Nato would have an obligation to defend Greenland.”

Trump has had his eyes on the territory since 2019, when he first publicly floated the thought of buying the territory from Denmark, which runs it as an autonomous and self-governing entity.

Greenland holds a big and untapped wealth of pure assets, together with oil and gasoline in addition to pure earth minerals, zinc, copper, nickel and graphite. Its geographical location, positioned between the North American Arctic and Europe, additionally makes it interesting to Trump for strategic causes.