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Why Trump believes America can take Greenland and how president's plan will flip geopolitical order on its head
[DM] The return of Donald Trump to the White House in January unsurprisingly heralded a raft of rapid policy changes.

But the US President's fixation on subsuming Greenland - the world's largest island adrift in icy seas - has the potential to fundamentally reshape the landscape of global security and trade as we know it.

Trump has refused to rule out using military or economic action to acquire the island, leading some analysts to warn that Washington could even attempt to annex the territory in a move shockingly similar to that of Russia wresting control of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, the US President made an alarming, if somewhat ambiguous, statement of intent.

'We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,' he said.

'If we don't have Greenland, we can't have good national security,' he concluded as his Vice President JD Vance geared up for a visit to a US military base at Pituffik in the island's north.

The Vice President had planned to tour the island and attend a popular dog sled race tomorrow with his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance - but the event was cancelled after widespread anti-American protests from locals and claims the Vances' vacation-like engagements were concealing more sinister motives.

Trump recently said his administration was working with 'people in Greenland' who 'want something to happen' with the US, claiming: 'They're calling us - we're not calling them.'

But opinion polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States, and in recent weeks anti-American protesters have staged some of the largest demonstrations ever seen on the Arctic island.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has firmly opposed Trump's overtures since his return to office, praised Greenlanders' defiance of Washington amid the historic protests.

'The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great, but it is in times like these that you show what you are made of,' she wrote in an address to the island's inhabitants. 'You have stood up for who you are.'

Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen later piled on, declaring his nation 'would not let the United States decide what the Danish realm, including Greenland, should look like in the future'.
Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-27
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