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President Donald Trump said Sunday (January 12, 2026) the United States would instrumentality Greenland "one mode oregon the other," warning that Russia and China would "take over" if Washington didn't act.
Mr. Trump says controlling the mineral-rich Danish territory is important for U.S. nationalist security, fixed accrued Russian and Chinese subject enactment successful the Arctic.
"If we don't instrumentality Greenland, Russia oregon China will, and I'm not letting that happen," Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, contempt neither state laying assertion to the immense island.
Mr. Trump said helium would beryllium unfastened to making a woody with the Danish self-governing territory "but 1 mode oregon the other, we're going to person Greenland."
Denmark and different European allies person voiced shock astatine Mr. Trump's threats implicit the island, which plays a strategical relation betwixt North America and the Arctic, and wherever the United States has had a subject basal since World War II.
A Danish colony until 1953, Greenland gained location regularisation 26 years aboriginal and is contemplating yet loosening its ties with Denmark.
The immense bulk of its colonisation and governmental parties person said they bash not privation to beryllium nether U.S. power and importune Greenlanders indispensable determine their ain aboriginal — a viewpoint continuously challenged by Mr. Trump.
"Greenland should marque the deal, due to the fact that Greenland does not privation to spot Russia oregon China instrumentality over," Mr. Trump warned, arsenic helium mocked its defenses.
"You cognize what their defence is, 2 canine sledges," helium said, portion Russia and China person "destroyers and submarines each implicit the place."
Denmark's Prime Minister warned past week that immoderate U.S. determination to instrumentality Greenland by unit would destruct 80 years of transatlantic information links.
Mr. Trump waved disconnected the comment, saying, "If it affects NATO, it affects NATO. But you know, [Greenland] needs america overmuch much than we request them."
