Trump says using US military is ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland | US news
Donald Trump and his team are exploring “a range of options” for seizing Greenland, and using the US military to do so is “always an option,” the White House said in a statement on Tuesday.
“President Trump has made the well-known case that seizing Greenland is a national security priority for the United States and that deterring our adversaries in the Arctic is vital. The President and his team are discussing a range of options to achieve this important foreign policy objective, and of course using the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Leavitt’s comments come as leaders of major European powers oppose Trump’s desire to bring the polar region into US hands. The US president renewed his call for the US to seize Greenland after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was arrested under cover of night over the weekend.
Trump said on Sunday that he needed Greenland “badly”, causing tensions to rise between the US, the semi-autonomous Danish region and Europe.
Greenland has repeatedly stated that it does not want to be part of the United States. This idea is not very popular in the USA either. where a survey is located Only 7% of Americans accept a military takeover of Greenland.
ITV reporter James Mates at a press conference in Paris he asked Touting the Trump administration’s new commitments to defend Ukraine, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: “What value are these commitments on a day when the highest levels of government in Washington are talking about seizing sovereign territory belonging to a fellow NATO member?”
Starmer said he stood by the statement he made on Monday when he said, “Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark should not let anyone else determine the future of Greenland.”
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller had previously claimed in an interview with CNN that there would be no need for military intervention to seize the island because “no one is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.”
