Trump repeats us that we have to have ‘Greenland on the eve of a visit to JD Vance | News Donald Trump
The US president said, “We must convince them,” because he claimed that taking control of Greenland was crucial to US national security.
United States President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his wish for Washington Download control over Greenlandbefore a controversial planned visit Danish autonomic territory Vice President JD Vance.
“We need Greenland for international security and security. We need to. We have to have it,” Trump said in an interview on Wednesday.
“I hate to say that, but we’ll have to have it,” he said.
Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has repeatedly insisted that he wanted to take control of Greenland for national security purposes.
Trump has refused to exclude the use of military force to bring the Arctic territory under the control of Washington, despite being ruled by NATO-ALLY DANSKO Six centuries.
“We need to have this country because it is not possible to properly defend a large part of this country, not just the United States, without it,” Trump said.
“It’s an island that is from defensive posture and even offensive posture, something we need, especially with the world as it is, and we will have to have it,” he said.
Located between North America and Europe, Greenland is of geographical importance at the time of the increase in American, Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic.
The territory also has huge unused minerals and oil reserves – although the study is currently forbidden – which could significantly move the dynamics of global trade.
The interviewee asked if he thought Greenland was eagerly joining the US, Trump said he didn’t know, but “we have to convince them.”
Grenland has repeatedly declared its specified goal any independence from Denmark. Earlier this month, the Democaatit of the right center-is described as a pro-imposing and benefit of a slow access to independence Parliamentary elections in the territory.
In the light of the increasingly assertive overture of Trump’s administration, 85 percent of the population of the semi -automatic Arctic territory also expressed opposition to the arrival under the rule of Washington.
Trump’s last flammable remarks come because Vice President Vance was supposed to follow his wife Usha to visit Greenland this Friday.
The initial plan, which included a visit to the dog race, caused anger among Greenland officials and the public. Vance, his wife and other Trump’s administration officials will now visit the US military base in Greenland instead.
The acting government of the territory, Mute Egeda, marked the uninvited journey with “provocation” and “foreign interference” in his jobs. Posting on Facebook, the departing Greenland government announced that it had not “expanded invitations to visit, neither private nor official.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederixen also accused the USA of “unacceptable pressure“In Greenland and Denmark through the journey.
“The pressure is that we will resist,” she said on Tuesday in Danish media. “This is obviously not a visit that Greenland needs or wants.”
Responding to a return relationship, the White House later announced that Vances would now visit the American Pituffik Space Base in Greenland instead of a dog race, where anti-American demonstration was reportedly planned.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen welcomed the decision to limit a visit to the US base.
“I think it’s very positive that Americans have canceled their visit among the Greenland society. They will only visit their base, Pituffic, and we don’t mind that,” he said.
Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said a visit to the military basis “much wiser decision” from the disturbance of “what is happening in Greenland politics”.
