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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a U.S. penetration of Greenland "would make Vladimir Putin the happiest antheral connected earth" successful a paper interrogation published connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
PM Sanchez said, ”Any military enactment by the U.S. against Denmark's immense Arctic land would harm NATO and legitimize the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.”
"If we absorption connected Greenland, I person to accidental that a U.S. penetration of that territory would marque Vladimir Putin the happiest antheral successful the world. Why? Because it would legitimize his attempted penetration of Ukraine," helium said successful an interrogation in La Vanguardia newspaper.
"If the United States were to usage force, it would beryllium the decease knell for NATO. Mr. Putin would beryllium doubly happy." President Donald Trump connected Saturday (January 17) appeared to alteration tack implicit Greenland by vowing to instrumentality a question of expanding tariffs connected European allies until the United States is allowed to bargain Greenland.
In a station connected Truth Social, President Trump said an further 10% import tariffs would instrumentality effect connected February 1 connected goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and Great Britain — each already taxable to tariffs imposed by Mr. Trump.
Those tariffs would increase to 25% connected June 1 and would proceed until a deal was reached for the U.S. to acquisition Greenland, Mr. Trump wrote.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly insisted helium volition settee for thing little than the ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Leaders of some Denmark and Greenland person insisted the land is not for merchantability and does not privation to beryllium portion of the United States.
