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U.S. President Donald Trump linked his thrust to instrumentality power of Greenland to his nonaccomplishment to triumph the Nobel Peace Prize, saying helium nary longer thought “purely of Peace” arsenic the enactment implicit the land connected Monday (January 19, 2026) threatened to reignite a commercialized war with Europe.
Mr. Trump has intensified his propulsion to wrest sovereignty implicit Greenland from chap NATO subordinate Denmark, threatening punitive tariffs connected countries which basal successful his mode and prompting the European Union to measurement hitting backmost with its ain measures.
The quality is threatening to upend the NATO confederation that has underpinned Western information for decades and which was already nether strain implicit the warfare successful Ukraine and Mr. Trump’s refusal to support allies which bash not walk capable connected defence.
It has besides plunged commercialized relations betwixt the EU and the U.S., the bloc’s biggest export market, into renewed uncertainty aft the 2 sides painstakingly reached a commercialized woody past twelvemonth successful effect to Mr.Trump’s swinging tariffs.
In a written connection to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere that was seen by Reuters, Mr. Trump said: “Considering your Country decided not to springiness maine the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I nary longer consciousness an work to deliberation purely of Peace, though it volition ever beryllium predominant, but tin present think astir what is bully and due for the United States of America.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee annoyed Mr. Trump by awarding the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize not to him but to Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado. She gave her medal past week to Mr. Trump during a White House meeting, though the Nobel Committee said the prize cannot beryllium transferred, shared oregon revoked.
In his message, Mr. Trump besides repeated his accusation that Denmark cannot support Greenland from Russia oregon China.
“... and wherefore bash they person a ‘right of ownership’ anyway?” helium wrote, adding: “The World is not unafraid unless we person Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
