Greenland party leaders unite to reject Trump annexation move
All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have issued a joint statement rejecting President Donald Trump’s latest effort to take control of the strategic Arctic island.
The statement was issued by the leaders of the parties that won seats in parliament in an election held earlier this week.
“We — all party chairmen — cannot accept the repeated statements on annexation and control of Greenland,” the statement said. “We, as party chairmen, find this conduct unacceptable to friends and allies in a defence alliance.”
Greenland is a self-governing region of Denmark, a Nato ally of the United States.
Take control
The party leaders released their statement after Mr Trump reiterated his desire to take control of Greenland, which has strategic air and sea routes through the Arctic.
During a press conference with Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday, Mr Trump was asked about his vision for annexing Greenland.
“Well, I think it’ll happen,” he responded.
He added: “We’ve been dealing with Denmark. We’ve been dealing with Greenland. And we have to do it. We really need it for national security.”
Mr Trump reminded his audience that the US already has military bases in Greenland.
“Maybe you’ll see more and more soldiers go there,” he said. “I don’t know.”
Greenland Prime Minister Mute B Egede was even more outspoken than his parliamentary colleagues in rejecting Mr Trump’s comments.
“Our country will never be the USA, and we Greenlanders will never be Americans,” he said on Facebook. “Greenland is one country. We are united.”
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How many countries has Trwmp threatened with invasion, occupation and robbery…?
Canada, Greenland, Panama… Trump wants military options to “bolster” US presence in Panama. Canada has told him to get lost, now Greenland and so has Panama. Trumps DOJ speech last night was off the scale nuts. He is unhinged, the OAP needs to be in a home on pills. Hesgeth is trying to remove laws that inhibit what will basically be war crimes, where will that fit into invasions. And people thought trump would be good.
The threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state…UN Charter prohibits this…
Agreed, but the likes of Trump and Putin evidently don’t care what the Charter says.
The rest of the world must now realise the US has gone rogue, can no longer be trusted and has to be treated like any other rogue country. The EU and Canada will have to start moving business elsewhere – as extremely hard as that may be. A threat of a 200% tariff on European wine, for instance, and this aggression against Greenland and Canada shows us we have no choice but to do so.
Is Trump proposing a legitimate deal as with Alaska or actual theft like Crimea?
Would you trust a trump deal? He made deals with Canada and Mexico version 1 then nixed them version 2. His deals. He always reneges on them.
This will be by force one way or the other. Starmer is already running scared cos defence (I assume its defence).
Trump creates unity among Greenlanders but creates division elsewhere. Accidents will happen.