After militarily invading Venezuela on January 3, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpinsisted during the rest of the first month of the year that wanted to .
“I urge the US side to stop the threats towards a historically close ally and against another country and another people, which has clearly said that it is not for sale,” the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen.
The intimidating messages from the North American president, which increased in intensity as the weeks went by, made Denmark (country of which Greenland is a part) take measures to try to
the Danish public broadcasting corporation, has reported that the Nordic country’s army carried out a contingency plan that included sending soldiers carrying explosives.
Specifically, the objective of the explosives was destroy the existing landing strips on the arctic island. They are located near the capital, Nuuk, and in a former fighter base in Kangerlussuaq. With this strategy, Denmark intended complicate as much as possible the potential US military deployment in Greenland.
Furthermore, the troops sent to the island were also provided blood reserves that were intended to be used in the event of fighting against American soldiers.
The support of France and Germany for the Danish plan
The British media citing two European officials, has confirmed the information of DR adding that that contingency plan Dane facing a possible US invasion of Greenland It had the support of France and Germany.
In that sense, one of the European officials consulted by the aforementioned media has recognized, referring to the US interest in taking over Greenland, that “We were very worried that this was going to go really wrong.”
Finally, during a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte managed to convince Trump to accept the general outlines of a “future agreement” with Denmark on Greenland.
