This aerial view exhibits icebergs floating within the waters crushed down by the solar with buildings within the background off Nuuk, Greenland, on March 11, 2025, on the day of Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory, legislative elections.
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Denmark is in “full disaster mode” after U.S. President Donald Trump as soon as once more set his sights on Greenland, following the strike on Venezuela.
“We want Greenland from the standpoint of nationwide safety and Denmark isn’t going to have the ability to do it, I can inform you,” Trump stated Sunday on Air Pressure One, echoing related remarks made individually to The Atlantic journal.
His feedback come a day after the U.S. carried out a significant army operation in Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores, in a shock intervention that despatched shockwaves throughout the globe.
It has raised alarm in Denmark, which is chargeable for the protection of Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory.
“I’ve to say this very on to the USA: It makes completely no sense to speak in regards to the want for the USA to take over Greenland,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated Sunday in a Fb publish.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (L) and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (C) converse to the media aboard Air Pressure One enroute to Washington, DC on January 04, 2026.
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“The Kingdom of Denmark – and thus Greenland – is a part of NATO and is due to this fact coated by the alliance’s safety assure. We have already got a protection settlement between the Kingdom and the USA right this moment, which provides the USA huge entry to Greenland,” Frederiksen stated.
“I’d due to this fact strongly urge the USA to cease the threats towards a traditionally shut ally and towards one other nation and one other individuals who have stated very clearly that they don’t seem to be on the market,” she added.
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stated on social media that Trump’s remarks have been “very impolite and disrespectful.”
‘The Greenland danger is underpriced’
Opinion polls have beforehand proven that Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose U.S. management, whereas a powerful majority help independence from Denmark.
Copenhagen has sought to enhance ties with Greenland in current months, pledging to spice up spending for healthcare and infrastructure investments, whereas additionally in search of to defuse tensions with the Trump administration by investing in Arctic protection, together with the acquisition of 16 further F-35 fighter jets.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a press convention on the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 28, 2025.
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Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at political danger consultancy Eurasia Group, stated the Danish authorities is in “full disaster mode” over Trump’s newest feedback, citing Frederiksen’s assertion over the weekend.
“As I’ve lengthy argued, the Greenland danger is underpriced,” Rahman stated Sunday in a LinkedIn publish.
“A doable US intervention in Greenland is now the most important supply of danger to the transatlantic alliance and intra-NATO and intra-EU cohesion, arguably far better than these offered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Rahman stated.
The U.S. president, who has beforehand refused to rule out the usage of army or financial power to take Greenland, named Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry as particular envoy to Greenland final month.
The appointment was condemned by each Denmark and Greenland. Landry has publicly endorsed Trump’s push to carry Greenland underneath U.S. management.
Katie Miller, the spouse of high White Home aide Stephen Miller, posted to X a map of Greenland coated with an American flag with the caption “SOON,” shortly after Maduro was captured on Saturday.
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