US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (July 7) renewed his push for the US to take control of Greenland, saying the strategically important Arctic territory \u201cshould be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark\u201d during remarks made alongside the NATO summit.<\/p>\n
Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Trump\u2019s latest comments revived a long-running dispute that first emerged during his previous presidency and risked adding fresh strain to relations between Washington and its European allies at a time when US-Europe ties remain under pressure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what hurt my relationship with NATO, because Greenland doesn\u2019t help Denmark. Denmark doesn\u2019t spend money to really help Greenland, but it\u2019s an important part for the United States, and it\u2019s surrounded by China ships and Russian ships, and that\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Trump said. He added: \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected Trump’s remarks, insisting there was no possibility of Greenland changing hands and indicating the issue would not feature in discussions at the NATO summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a well-known position of the United States that it wants to own and take over Greenland. I hope that it is equally well-known everywhere that this is not going to happen,\u201d Frederiksen said.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, he reaffirmed Greenland\u2019s commitment to maintaining close ties with its allies while stressing that decisions about the territory\u2019s future rested with Greenlanders. \u201cThat\u2019s how it has always been. And that\u2019s how it always will be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (July 7) renewed his push for the US to take control of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[3207,2657,29145,108,27,10900,26,61181,184,7898,13853,7584,1586,1628,57,61182,1583,3396,7602,45783,21953,3201,9217,9233,4744,5681,61179,10845,61180,9188,178],"class_list":["post-124914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-arctic-strategy","tag-autonomous-territory","tag-border-control","tag-copenhagen","tag-danmark","tag-defense-spending","tag-denmark","tag-diplomatic-tension","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-allies","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-geopolitics","tag-global-politics","tag-governance","tag-greenland","tag-international-dispute","tag-international-relations","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-military-presence","tag-mute-egede","tag-nato-summit","tag-natural-resources","tag-regional-security","tag-security-alliance","tag-sovereignty","tag-strategic-importance","tag-territorial-dispute","tag-territorial-integrity","tag-trans-atlantic-ties","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}