{"id":21253,"date":"2026-02-22T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21253\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:49:09","slug":"denmark-rejects-us-offer-to-send-hospital-boat-to-greenland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/21253\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark rejects US offer to send hospital boat to Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Denmark on Sunday rejected US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to send a \u201cgreat hospital boat\u201d to Greenland, the autonomous territory he has sought to acquire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump said the vessel would help people on the island <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-greenland-hospital-ship.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:access health care;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">access health care<\/a>. Danish officials responded by noting that Greenlanders have access to Denmark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/22\/greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-boat-sent-by-trump-says-denmark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:free, nationalized health system;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">free, nationalized health system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The president\u2019s offer reflected his efforts to assert more control over Greenland, which Trump has cast as crucial to American national security in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It prompted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/22\/trump-greenland-hospital-ship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:befuddlement on both sides of the Atlantic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">befuddlement on both sides of the Atlantic<\/a>,\u201d The Washington Post wrote, given that maritime tracking data showed no US hospital ship positioned to sail to Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:J.D. Capelouto;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark on Sunday rejected US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to send a \u201cgreat hospital boat\u201d to Greenland, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2657,27,26,184,57,14177],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-autonomous-territory","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-hospital-boat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","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=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}