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chairman Donald Trump appears to have moved beyond that Concentrate intensely once you get to Greenland to the United States, but the Danish Prime Minister said he believed it was only a matter of time before he was once again called to the island.
On Tuesday, the Danish Prime Minister mate frederiksen Said it was too early for anyone to “breathe a sigh of relief.”
“Right now it seems very far away. Maybe there is a feeling that we can breathe a sigh of relief,” she said during a session of the Danish parliament, according to politico“It is my belief that we cannot.”
Trump has previously said he was determined to obtain Greenland and once told Congress that the US would take control of the island. were required For “national security and international security”.
When reporters asked him in March whether acquiring Greenland was important enough to him consider military actionHe stated that “I never take military force off the table.”
The reaction from Greenland—which is a self-governing Danish territory—to its potential acquisition by the US heavy negativeAnd the Danish government condemned the Trump administration’s efforts to force the issue.
During his address to parliament on Tuesday, Frederiksen said much of Greenland’s population still lives in uncertainty about what the Trump administration will do to try to take the island and its control. Huge supply of unknown rare earth minerals,
“Imagine what it’s like to live in one of the small settlements along the coast … when the world’s strongest superpower talks about you as something that can be bought, as something that can be made, as something that should be,” she said.
“No matter what happens, we support Greenland in determining its future. And we will not be bullied or intimidated into doing something that is clearly wrong.”
Greenland’s leadership is in talks to formalize a minerals partnership with the UK and its Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt told politico It wanted to explore trade partnerships with other “like-minded countries” in an effort to strengthen it against American bullying.
“Of course, we want to cooperate with our like-minded countries with their critical minerals, and [the] The EU is a good partner, we like them,” she said in May.
He condemned the Trump administration for its aggressive push to take control of the island.
“We’re supposed to be friends. We’re allies. Allies don’t do things like that,” Motzfeldt said. “The situation is new to us, and new to the rest of the world, because you don’t do that … to your ally.”
At the height of Trump’s Greenland obsession, he tasked Vice President J.D. Vance with trying to make inroads into the Danish territory, but his efforts were largely unsuccessful.
“Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance. said in march“You have weakened the people of Greenland, and you have weakened the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass full of incredible people. That has to change.”
Vance and his wife, Usha, traveled to Greenland in March in an attempt to speak directly to Greenlanders, but no one wanted to meet him,
Vance was originally scheduled to participate in the Avenanata Kimuseruaq, one of the world’s largest dog-sledding races, and to meet with a travel company in Greenland, but both events were canceled. Instead, he visited a US Space Force base before flying back to the US
Frederiksen condemned Vance’s visit at the time.
“I have to say that this is unacceptable pressure on Greenland and Denmark in this situation. And it is pressure that we will resist,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcasters DR and TV2 at the time.
“You cannot have a private visit with official representatives of another country when the acting Greenlandic government has made it clear that they do not want a visit at this time.”