CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut \u2013 Since U.S. President \u2060Donald Trump\u2019s barrage of threats to seize Greenland, authorities on the frozen island have been seeking help from a northern ally: Canada.<\/p>\n
A reserve unit of the Canadian armed forces called the Rangers has long maintained a year-round presence in mostly inaccessible Arctic communities. For three years, authorities in Greenland and Denmark have consulted with Canadian officials on how to set up their own version of the Rangers \u2014 conversations that grew more urgent with Trump\u2019s threats and growing fears of Russian hostility in the Arctic.<\/p>\n
“The rhetoric coming out of the White House has sped up efforts to rebuff the idea that Arctic communities need the U.S. to come in and save them,\u201d said Whitney \u200bLackenbauer, an honorary lieutenant colonel Canadian Ranger involved in the talks, who spoke with journalists during a recent 5,000-kilometer Arctic snowmobile trek by the Rangers. “The Nordic countries and Canada, we\u2019re increasingly realizing we can come together \u200cin military and \u200cdiplomatic ways to send a message that carries moral weight.\u201d As Canada attempts to pivot away from relying on the U.S. to protect its vast Arctic, Prime Minister \u200bMark Carney is strengthening ties and exchanging security tips with the Nordic countries, which he describes as trusted partners. Canada’s increased defense collaboration with the Nordics is part of Carney’s effort to strengthen alliances between what he calls “middle powers\u201d in a world where the United States is considered a less reliable partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut \u2013 Since U.S. President \u2060Donald Trump\u2019s barrage of threats to seize Greenland, authorities on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7129,17,507,162,508,246,2878],"class_list":["post-48586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-arctic","tag-canada","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-nunavut","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}