The Trump administration is weighing options to acquire Greenland, including the use of the military, days after completing a covert operation to capture Venezuela’s now-deposed President Nicolás Maduro.
“The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the Commander-in-Chief’s disposal,” the White House said Tuesday.
On Monday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said on CNN, “The president has made clear for months now that the United States should be the nation that has Greenland as part of our overall security apparatus.”
Greenland, a mineral-rich Arctic island, is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Trump told reporters last Sunday Greenland is “so strategic right now,” adding the territory “is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.”
Also over the weekend, the U.S. captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas. They both subsequently pleaded not guilty to drug and weapons charges in New York.
On Tuesday, six major European nations said in a joint statement: “Only Denmark and Greenland can decide on matters concerning their relations.”
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Over the four days that have elapsed since the daring, unprecedented — and according to critics, illegal — special forces action that brought Maduro from a Caracas safe house to a New York courtroom on drug and weapons charges, the president and his allies in the White House have proceeded to threaten or warn of military action against multiple American allies and neighbors, including Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Denmark, the NATO member kingdom which has controlled Greenland in whole or in part since the 16th century.
Trump himself told reporters on Sunday that the result of his decision to have U.S. forces seize Maduro was to show that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” while claiming that his administration’s aim was to make sure the hemisphere was filled with “countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out.”
For Trump, it was a return to the bellicose rhetoric he’d spouted since the days immediately following his 2024 election victory, when he began claiming the U.S. needs to annex Greenland for “national security” reasons despite the existence of a decades-old treaty that essentially gives America carte blanche to base troops there as part of the country’s commitment to NATO.
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Trump is considering using military to acquire Greenland
The Trump administration is weighing options to acquire Greenland, including the use of the military.
“The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the Commander-in-Chief’s disposal,” the White House said Tuesday.
Source: independent.co.uk