For international security and safety, we need Greenland. It is required. Trump stated in a Wednesday interview that “we must have it.”
He said, “I hate to put it that way, but we’re going to have to have it.”
President Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to control Greenland for national security since returning to the White House in January.
Despite being under Danish rule for six centuries, Trump has refrained from using military force to enslave the Arctic region.
Because it’s impossible to properly defend a large portion of this Earth, not just the United States, without it, Trump said.
We will have to have it because of the world’s current state, he said, “from a defensive posture, even from an offensive posture, it’s something we need.”
Greenland, which is situated between North America and Europe, is of strategic importance in the context of growing US, Chinese, and Russian interest in the Arctic.
Despite the current prohibition on exploration, the territory also has significant untapped mineral and oil reserves that could change the flow of global trade.
Trump responded by asking whether he thought Greenlanders were eager to enlist in the US. The interviewer responded that he did not know, but that “we have to persuade them.”
Greenland has repeatedly stated that it intends to eventually secede from Denmark. In the territory, the centre-right opposition Demokraatit party, which is described as pro-business and opposed to a slow path to independence, won parliamentary elections earlier this month.
85 percent of the semi-autonomous Arctic territory’s population has also voiced their opposition to resuming its authority in light of the Trump administration’s increasingly assertive overtures.
Vice President Vance is scheduled to accompany his wife Usha on a Friday visit to Greenland, and Trump’s most recent incendiary remarks come as he makes his most recent comments.
Initial plans that included a dog-racing event were met with anger from Greenlandic authorities and the general public. Instead of going to a US military base in Greenland, Vince, his wife, and other Trump administration officials will stop there.
Mute Egede, the acting head of state for the territory, had referred to the uninvited trip as a “provocation” and “foreign interference” in its affairs. The Greenlandic government, in a post on Facebook, stated that it had not “extended any invitations for any visits, neither private nor official.”
Mette Frederiksen, the country’s prime minister, also accused the US of using the trip to “express unacceptably on Greenland and Denmark.”
She told Danish media on Tuesday, “It is pressure that we will resist.” It is obvious that this visit is not intended to address Greenland’s needs or wants.
The White House later clarified that the Vances would now travel to Greenland’s Pituffik Space Base in place of the dogsled race, where a rumored anti-US demonstration was being planned.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, welcomed the decision to omit the US base.
“It’s very encouraging that Americans have canceled their visit to Greenlandic society,” I think. We have no objections to them visiting their own base, Pituffik, he said.
