U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (March 14, 2025) reiterated his need to annex the autonomous territory of Greenland from Denmark within the curiosity of “international security.”
“I think it will happen,” Mr. Trump informed reporters on the White House alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, when requested about his imaginative and prescient for the annexation.
He pointed at Mr. Rutte and added the NATO chief might be “very instrumental” within the transfer.
“You know Mark, we need that for international security… we have a lot of our favorite players cruising around the coast and we have to be careful,” he mentioned, apparently referring to rising Chinese and Russian curiosity within the Arctic area.
Mr. Trump’s threats to take over the resource-rich Arctic island have shined an unprecedented international highlight on the territory, as he has beforehand refused to rule out the use of drive to “get Greenland.”
The U.S. president’s feedback come days after Greenland’s elections, with all of the political events, and the bulk of the island’s 57,000 inhabitants, backing independence – although they disagree on how rapidly the method ought to go.
Mr. Rutte mentioned that he wouldn’t be concerned in any query of Greenland turning into half of the United States, saying: “I don’t want to drag NATO in that.”
However, “when it comes to the high north and the Arctic, you are totally right,” Mr. Rutte mentioned.
“The Chinese are now using these routes. We know that the Russians are rearming. We know we have lack of icebreakers.
“So the truth that the seven – exterior Russia – seven Arctic nations working collectively on this underneath U.S. management is essential to guarantee that that area, that half of the world stays protected,” Mr. Rutte mentioned.
Published – March 14, 2025 07:15 am IST
