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President Donald Trump connected Sunday (January 4, 2025) doubled down connected his assertion that Greenland should go portion of the United States, contempt calls by Denmark’s Prime Minister to halt “threatening” the territory.
Washington’s subject involution successful Venezuela has reignited fears for Greenland, which Mr. Trump has repeatedly said helium wants to annex, fixed its strategical determination successful the Arctic.
While aboard Air Force One en way to Washington, Mr. Trump reiterated the goal.
“We request Greenland from the standpoint of nationalist security, and Denmark is not going to beryllium capable to bash it,” helium said.
Over the weekend, Katie Miller, the woman of Mr. Trump’s astir influential aide, posted an representation of the emblem of Greenland successful the colours of the US flag, captioning it “SOON”.
Denmark and the European Union person responded with ire to Mr. Trump’s Greenland agenda.
“I person to accidental this precise intelligibly to the United States: it is perfectly absurd to accidental that the United States should instrumentality power of Greenland,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said successful a connection connected Sunday (January 4).
She called connected Washington to halt “threatening its humanities ally”.
European leaders were rattled by Mr. Trump sending his subject to onslaught Caracas and drawback Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is present being detained successful New York.
Mr. Trump has said the United States volition present “run” Venezuela indefinitely and pat its immense lipid reserves.
He says Greenland, which is affluent successful captious minerals captious for the tech industry, is needed for U.S. nationalist security.
Asked successful a telephone interrogation with The Atlantic astir the implications of the Venezuela subject cognition for Greenland, Mr. Trump said that it was up to others to decide, according to the mag connected Sunday (January 4).
“They are going to person to presumption it themselves. I truly don’t know,” Mr. Trump was quoted arsenic saying.
He added: “But we bash request Greenland, absolutely. We request it for defence.”
Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen called Ms. Miller’s emblem station “disrespectful”.
“Relations betwixt nations and peoples are built connected communal respect and planetary instrumentality — not connected symbolic gestures that disregard our presumption and our rights,” helium wrote connected X.
But helium besides said that “there is neither crushed for panic nor for concern. Our state is not for sale, and our aboriginal is not decided by societal media posts”.
Allies?
Stephen Miller is wide seen arsenic the designer of overmuch of Mr. Trump’s policies, guiding the president connected his hardline migration policies and home agenda.
Denmark’s ambassador to the United States, Jesper Moeller Soerensen, offered a pointed “friendly reminder” successful effect to Ms. Katie Miller’s station that his state — a NATO subordinate — has “significantly boosted its Arctic information efforts” and worked unneurotic with Washington connected that.
“We are adjacent allies and should proceed to enactment unneurotic arsenic such,” Mr. Soerensen wrote.
Ms. Katie Miller was lawman property caput nether Mr. Trump astatine the Department of Homeland Security during his archetypal term.
She aboriginal worked arsenic communications manager for then-vice president Mike Pence and besides acted arsenic his property secretary.
