Trump could move for Greenland in ‘weeks’ while moving at ‘high speed’ | World | News
Donald Trump could launch meaningful US action to annex Greenland within “weeks or months,” a senior administration official has warned.
Tensions between Mr Trump and NATO have soared in recent weeks over the US President’s desire to annex the Arctic island. Thomas Dans, Mr. Trump’s Arctic commissioner, said the President wanted to move at “high speed” on the issue and that “things can move quickly.” he said USA Today: “This is a train route with multiple stops. Things can run express, skipping local stops and going directly to the main station. President Trump wants to move it there at high speed.”
Dans also said he thought there could be noticeable progress in negotiations or an agreement, but Greenland Sooner or later, he ultimately expects the acquisition to take longer than that to complete.
“We need to take the people of Greenland with us,” he said, citing polls showing that the majority of Greenland’s 57,000 residents eventually want to secede from Denmark, but that the vast majority do not want Greenland to become the 51st state of the United States. According to USA Today, Denmark and Greenland said Greenland was not for sale.
Dans’ assessment comes as the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland are due to visit Washington on Wednesday to meet with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The meeting was requested by Denmark, following Trump’s threatening insistence that the US should “own” Greenland, and was supposed to be held with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But in a sign that momentum on Greenland may be gaining momentum, Vance will now lead the discussion.
Meanwhile, Greenlandic Energy Minister Naaja Nathanielsen told a press conference in Westminster on Tuesday that American military action would represent a “collapse of the rule of law” and leave Western allies “forced to understand what this new world order is about.”
Ms. Nathanielsen added that Greenland felt “betrayed.” Donald Trump‘s demands to annex semi-autonomous Danish territory. He said: “As we have said many times before, we think this rhetoric is offensive but also surprising because we have done nothing but support the idea that Greenland is part of America’s national interest.”
On Monday, a member of Donald Trump’s Republican Party introduced legislation to annex Greenland as the 51st state of the United States. The US president claimed over the weekend that he needed to “take Greenland” to prevent Russia or China from doing so.
