The US president says he no longer feels “obliged to think only about peace”
This Monday, the US president linked his ambition to annex Greenland with the fact that he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump now says that he no longer thinks “only about peace”, while threatening the Danish island and reigniting the trade war with Europe.
According to the agency, in a written message addressed to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, the American president wrote the following: “Considering that your country has decided not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize after having prevented more than eight wars, I no longer feel obliged to think only about peace, although this is always a predominant idea, but now I can think about what is good and appropriate for the United States of America.”
Trump again repeated the accusation that Denmark is incapable of effectively warding off Russian and Chinese threats from Greenland: “Why would they have ‘property rights’ anyway? The world is not safe unless the US has total and complete control of Greenland.” And it intensified its pressure to strip Denmark, a member of NATO, of the sovereignty of Greenland, the countries that oppose it, which led the European Union to consider .
The Norwegian Nobel Committee angered Donald Trump by awarding the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who in turn .
On Saturday, Trump promised to implement a wave of escalating tariffs from February 1 on some EU members – Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, the United Kingdom and Norway – until the US is allowed to buy Greenland.
Russia declined to comment on whether U.S. plans for Greenland were good or bad, but said it was difficult to disagree with experts that Trump would “go in” if he took control of the island.
