Trump threatens Greenland with military force | US | News
The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Donald Trump and his administration are exploring various ways to secure Greenland and that military intervention “always remains an option.”
The statement followed a suggestion by one of Trump’s senior advisers that America might be prepared to seize control of the Arctic region by force, triggering a strong European show of solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.
“President Trump has made the well-known statement that seizing Greenland is a U.S. national security priority and that deterring our adversaries in the Arctic region is vital.
“The President and his team are discussing a range of options to achieve this important foreign policy goal, and of course using the U.S. military is always an option at the commander-in-chief’s disposal,” the White House said.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met to confirm that Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, “belongs to its people”, posing an unusual European challenge to the White House.
“The authority to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland belongs to Denmark and Greenland, and to them alone,” the three leaders, along with the prime ministers of Denmark, Italy, Poland and Spain, said in a joint statement on Tuesday. he said.
Starmer reiterated Britain’s support for Denmark at a press conference in Paris, attended by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“I’ve been very clear about what my position is, what the UK government’s position is,” Starmer said.
But Trump’s powerful deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, said on Monday: “Nobody [was] “I will fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland when pressured to reject the use of force.”
Speaking to CNN, Miller suggested that there would be no need for military action to maintain control of Greenland due to its limited population.
The other day, Trump announced that America needed Greenland “very badly.”
Trump’s remarks reignited concerns about the possibility of the United States invading the largely self-governing region to seize control of oil, gas and rare earth resources as Arctic ice caps continue to melt.
This follows the US military operation in Venezuela on January 3, which resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
On Saturday, Trump announced that a U.S. military strike had successfully detained Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
While Maduro and Flores were facing drug trafficking allegations, Trump stated at a press conference on January 3 that “America will govern the country until we can make a safe, appropriate and reasonable transition.”
