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United States President Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland again. The Republican said in an interview with a podcast host on Wednesday (26/3) that the US needs the territory for “international security.”
“We need Greenland for international security. We need it,” he said. “I hate to put it that way, but we have to stay with her,” said the US president.
Trump said he would not discard the use of strength to assume Greenland/Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP
In the coming days, an American entourage with the vice president of the United States, Jd Vance, his wife, USha Vance, and senior government officials will reach the island, administered by Denmark.
“Looking forward to visiting Greenland on Friday. […] Unfortunately, leaders in both the United States and Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for too long, ”Vance wrote on social network X (former Twitter).
According to the vice president, several countries threatened Greenland, using navigable territories and roads to threaten the United States and Canada. “Let’s see how things are there,” said Vance.
The entourage will visit the American space base of Pitttufik in the northwest of the island. The White House National Security Counselor, Mike Waltz, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be present.
For Greenland’s interim prime minister Mute Egede, the visit is a foreign interference. “Our integration and our democracy must be respected without any foreign interference,” he wrote on Facebook.
Egede also claimed that the US was informed that the visits could only occur after the new government elected, which has not yet happened.
In the podcast, Trump said he would not discard the use of force to assume Greenland. The governments of the island and Denmark vehemently oppose the taking of the territory by the Americans.
In late January, a survey commissioned by Berlingske and Sermitsiaq newspapers showed that 85% of the local population (the territory has 57,000 inhabitants) do not want to be part of the United States.
Greenland has been controlled by Denmark for centuries. Currently, the island is an autonomous territory of the country.
