{"id":695745,"date":"2026-01-14T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:33:12","slug":"trump-insists-us-needs-greenland-as-white-house-talks-begin-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695745\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump insists US needs Greenland as White House talks begin &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Greenland matter to Trump?published at 15:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A BBC map showing Greenland in relation to North America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b797cf3-127d-469d-a516-cd879a78dc5b.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"1084\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let&#8217;s step back a second and look at the broader picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump has said that he wants Greenland for reasons of national security, citing concerns over Russia and China. Greenland&#8217;s location in the Arctic means that it is well placed for monitoring and early warning systems in the event of a missile attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the Cold War, the US had plans to station nuclear missiles on the island, but abandoned the project over engineering problems and objections from Denmark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenland has been controlled by Denmark for around 300 years, and was governed as a colony until the mid 20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In recent years, there has been increased interest in Greenland&#8217;s natural resources, including rare earth minerals, uranium and iron. It could also have significant oil and gas reserves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mineral resources have been a key focus of Trump elsewhere, including in his dealings with Ukraine. However, the US president has insisted &#8220;we need Greenland from the standpoint of national security&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why does Greenland matter to Trump?published at 15:43 GMT 15:43 GMT Let&#8217;s step back a second and look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-695745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115894419736795280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}