The northern areas of the globe are all the craze within the geopolitical world proper now.
Whether or not it’s over protection concerns or over the more and more viable maritime routes, the Arctic and Greenland are all the time within the headlines.
Now, as Trump reaffirmed his confidence that the US ‘will get’ Greenland and doesn’t rule out the potential for navy drive, Greenland and Denmark are panicking.
’We’ll get Greenland. Sure, 100%’, Trump mentioned in an interview with NBC. The likelihood is excessive that this shall be completed with out the usage of navy drive. However he once more acknowledged: ‘I don’t something from the desk’.
The brand new Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, defiantly posted on Fb that the US won’t get the island.
Reuters reported:
“’President Trump says that america is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: America gained’t get that. We don’t belong to anybody else. We decide our personal future’, Nielsen mentioned within the social media publish.
[…] Throughout a go to to a U.S. navy base within the north of Greenland on Friday [28], U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of not doing a very good job of maintaining the island secure and instructed america would higher shield the strategically situated island.”
Denmark’s management has failed the folks of Greenland, and their bullying techniques gained’t change that.
Funding in Greenland’s safety is in America’s finest curiosity, and it’ll proceed underneath President Trump. pic.twitter.com/ZpGlnDXCRh
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) March 28, 2025
PM Nielsen additionally mentioned at the moment (31) that he was wanting ahead to Wednesday’s go to by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
In a separate Reuters report:
“Frederiksen on Saturday introduced that she would go to Greenland on April 2-4 for talks with the semi-autonomous Danish territory’s new authorities, amid U.S. curiosity in taking management of the Arctic island.
‘Denmark is our closest accomplice, and it’s pure that we meet as quickly as attainable’, Nielsen wrote in a publish on Fb.”
Wow.
Trump simply acquired very critical about Greenland.
It’s about securing the Western Hemisphere. Russia and China are rising their affect within the arctic and Denmark can’t do it themselves.pic.twitter.com/CcH97fLay0
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) March 28, 2025
Whereas Greenland can rely on Denmark for some appreciable diplomatic assist, with regards to the navy muscle, Denmark drained its protection capability to arm Ukraine.
Sputnik reported:
“Whereas it has a inhabitants of simply 6 [million] and a $428 [billion] GDP, Denmark has persistently led the Western alliance within the proxy conflict towards Russia in Ukraine, with its arms deliveries the FOURTH LARGEST after the US, Germany and the UK, totaling $8.2 [billion], and non-military support including as much as $1.15 [billion].”
Denmark has cleared out its arms caches weapons to arm Kiev: F-16s, CAESAR howitzers, Leopard tanks, APCs, MANPADs, IFVs…
“Denmark has simply 130 civilian and navy personnel completely primarily based at its Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, plus the first Squadron of the Royal Danish Navy with 4 Thetis patrol and three Knud Rasmussen-class patrol ships, a lone Challenger 604 maritime patrol plane, and 14 Sirius Canine Sled Patrol commandos guarding the island.”
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