{"id":1002904,"date":"2026-08-15T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:45:28","slug":"why-the-movements-of-a-u-s-oil-company-in-greenland-have-sparked-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002904\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Movements of a U.S. Oil Company in Greenland Have Sparked Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The President has repeatedly stated that the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland as a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115841038484322716\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cnational security.\u201d<\/a> Greenland&#8217;s positioning between the U.S., Russia, and Europe makes it a strong geopolitical asset, and Trump has argued that Denmark cannot be relied upon to protect the island.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, tells TIME that \u201cthe Greenlandic political system and authorities have actually been very resilient\u201d in the face of the threats.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThey&#8217;ve been sticking to insisting that we will help America take care of its legitimate security concerns, but we don&#8217;t want to give away our self determination and our sovereignty,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Still, the topic has repeatedly returned to the forefront of U.S. political discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The President has repeatedly stated that the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland as a matter of \u201cnational security.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,8298,9880,159,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1002904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-greenland","tag-news-desk","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117101011087476001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}