John Bolton Says Trump’s Greenland Talk Is No Different Than Putin’s Language | EUROtoday

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser, known as out the president Friday for singing a well-known tune together with his discuss of taking on Greenland.

“The language that he uses is completely substitutable for the language that [Russian President] Vladimir Putin uses about Ukraine, ‘We need it for our national security,’ or [Chinese President] Xi Jinping uses about Taiwan,” Bolton instructed MSNBC’s Chris Jansing.

“This is a free gift to these authoritarian leaders and their aggressive desires.”

Bolton, a fierce Trump critic because the president pushed him out of his first administration, reacted to Trump claiming that America wants the Arctic territory for “international security” in remarks on the White House on Friday.

“We have to have Greenland. It’s not a question of, ‘Do you think we can do without it? We can’t,’” mentioned Trump, who claimed that Chinese and Russian ships had been “all over the place” in Greenland’s waterways.

“We’re not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation, and we’re not talking about peace for the United States, we’re talking about world peace.”

Trump’s feedback arrived on the identical day that Vice President JD Vance and second woman Usha Vance visited Greenland.

The vice chairman, who described it being “cold as shit” throughout his cease, careworn that Denmark was failing residents of the territory as he claimed that they might do higher with America taking them underneath its wings.

Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose changing into a part of the U.S., an opinion ballot present in January after Trump reignited talks of America controlling the island.

“When you push and indeed slap publicly democratically elected leaders — whether in Copenhagen or Nuuk, the capital of Greenland — it pushes them into a corner,” Bolton instructed Jansing.

“They’re not going to be shoved around just because Donald Trump wants it.”

Bolton added that Greenland does have vital strategic significance.

“But the way to get it is to act like a responsible ally, dealing with allies that we’ve built up trust and good faith with over decades, and not ripping the North Atlantic Alliance apart,” he continued.

“This is what the Trump administration has been doing, in effect, over the last two months.”