Trump insists US needs Greenland ahead of White House summit
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The news: US President Donald Trump has insisted that the US “needs Greenland” for national security purposes ahead of a scheduled White House meeting with foreign ministers from Greenland and Denmark on Wednesday.
The context: The representatives will meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance in Washington, with the talks focused on the future of Greenland.
The US President doubled down on his calls for Greenland to become US territory ahead of the talks via Truth Social, stating that the island is “vital for the Golden Dome” the US building. He added that NATO should be “leading the way for us to get it.”
In his post Trump reiterated that if the US doesn’t get Greenland, “RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!”
"NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES. Anything less than that is unacceptable", Trump wrote.
Trump has previously argued that the island would provide an essential strategic buffer in the region to protect against key US adversaries, saying that he will take it "the easy way or the hard way".
A report by NBC News on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the official estimates, said that the US may have to pay up to USD700 billion if it were to buy the country.
Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, has strongly pushed back on Trump’s threats and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the US takes control of the island by force, that will be the end of the transatlantic defence alliance that Europe has relied on for security for decades.
Last week European leaders warned that Greenland “belongs to its people” and that only the people of Denmark and Greenland should decide on matters concerning them. “Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them,” the leaders said in a joint statement.
The sources: Truth Social, BBC, NBC News, CNN
