{"id":20456,"date":"2026-02-21T23:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/20456\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:30:22","slug":"greenlands-future-is-for-denmark-to-decide-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/20456\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland\u2019s future is for Denmark to decide \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the right-wing populist leader argued that Trump has pinpointed \u201csome genuine security concerns around Greenland\u201d which will only become more relevant as climate change impacts the Arctic region. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a strong feeling in British intelligence circles and many in NATO that there needs to be a significant NATO base located directly on the north \u2014 in Greenland,\u201d Farage said.<\/p>\n<p>Danish PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a strong rejection of Trump\u2019s threats, while Starmer joined European leaders Tuesday in signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-top-leaders-rally-defend-greenland-against-trump-threats-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a joint statement<\/a> stressing the \u201cinviolability\u201d of Greenland\u2019s borders. <\/p>\n<p>However, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/06\/trump-greenland-military-force-00713315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">doubled down overnight<\/a>, saying Trump is considering \u201ca range of options\u201d to acquire Greenland including the use of military force.<\/p>\n<p>Farage argued that Greenland had already been \u201cmoving further and further away from Danish control, and is pretty close to establishing its own level of independence, and the fear is that they will fall prey to very large amounts of Chinese money and Chinese influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAs ever with things that Trump says, they may sound outrageous, and in the case of potentially using force, they are. But there is a point behind it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the right-wing populist leader argued that Trump has pinpointed \u201csome genuine security concerns around Greenland\u201d which will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[14158,57,294,14159],"class_list":["post-20456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-british-politics","tag-greenland","tag-united-kingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456","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=20456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}