US EditionGOP Rep. McCaul says a US invasion of Greenland would mean 'war with NATO itself'
Rep. McCaul says U.S. military action to acquire Greenland risks ending NATO; nearly 10% of Greenlanders protested against U.S. takeover threats, officials and leaders warn.
- Jan 15 Reuters reported that President Donald Trump revived a push to acquire Greenland, a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, after returning to the White House amid unresolved high-level meetings in Washington, D.C.
- Officials cited resource and supply-chain concerns, with Ambassador Matthew Whitaker arguing Greenland aids missile interception and sea-passage monitoring, while President Trump called ownership psychologically needed.
- Following the rebuke, the U.S. cancelled a state visit after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland's Jens-Frederik Nielsen insisted the island was not for sale.
- NATO officials said the dispute raised anxiety about military capacity, while Denmark warned any U.S. action against Greenland could end NATO and trigger Article 5 concerns.
- China and Russia have increased their Arctic presence through investment and naval activity, while Greenland's critical minerals face extraction limits from ice cover and past drilling, and European leaders rallied to support Denmark.
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Crimea is no less important to Russia's security than Greenland is to the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, drawing a comparison between the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow and the Danish autonomous territory that Washington wants to annex. Lavrov argued that Greenland is "not a natural part" of Denmark.
Russia's leadership should look anxiously at Trump's Greenland eskapads – in the logic of the US president. Indeed, they respond enthusiastically and cheerfully.
On Tuesday, 20 January, the President of the United States said that the Americans "should have" Greenland in response to a journalist asking him about what he planned to say to the Europeans who oppose his plans.
US President Donald Trump claims that European leaders will not “oppose much” attempts to take over Greenland. The president posts an apparently AI-generated image of him planting an American flag on Greenlandic soil on his social media channel.
The idea did not come as if by magic to Donald Trump. He is the heir of the cosmetics giant Estée Lauder, Ronald S. Lauder who is presented as the one who blew him.
Donald Trump also announced this Tuesday that he had met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and had accepted "a meeting of the different parties" in Switzerland.
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