TRUMP RENEWS GREENLAND AMBITIONS
Trump has in current days repeated that he desires to achieve management of Greenland, an concept first voiced in 2019 throughout his first presidency. He argues the island is vital for US navy technique and claims Denmark has not completed sufficient to guard it.
The White Home stated on Tuesday that Trump was discussing choices for buying Greenland, together with potential use of the US navy, in a revival of his ambition to manage the strategic island, regardless of European objections.
Barrot advised a US navy operation had been dominated out by Washington’s prime diplomat.
“I personally was on the cellphone yesterday with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (…) who confirmed that this was not the method taken … he dominated out the potential of an invasion (of Greenland),” he stated.
A US navy operation over the weekend that seized the chief of Venezuela had already rekindled issues that Greenland would possibly face an analogous situation.
A senior US official, talking on situation of anonymity, stated this week that Trump and his advisers had been discussing a wide range of methods to amass Greenland, together with a purchase order. Greenland and Denmark have stated the island is just not on the market.
Denmark’s International Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, have requested an pressing assembly with Rubio to debate the state of affairs.
“We wish to add some nuance to the dialog,” Rasmussen wrote in a social media publish. “The shouting match should be changed by a extra wise dialogue. Now.”
