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"Denmark’s prime minister has urged Donald Trump to stop threatening to take
over Greenland after the president said the US “absolutely” needs the
territory.
Mette Frederiksen said on Sunday: “It makes absolutely no sense to talk about
the US needing to take over Greenland. The US has no right to annex any of the
three countries in the Danish kingdom.”
The US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás
Maduro, has renewed fears of an American takeover of Greenland, as members of
Trump’s Maga movement gleefully set their sights on the Danish territory after
the attack in South America.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday hours after Frederiksen’s remarks,
Trump doubled down on his claim that Greenland should become part of the United
States.
“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not
going to be able to do it,” Trump told reporters said when asked about the
issue.
Hours after the US military operation in Venezuela, the rightwing podcaster
Katie Miller – the wife of Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s powerful deputy chief
of staff for policy – posted on X a map of Greenland draped in the stars and
stripes with the caption: “SOON.”
Miller’s threat to annex the mineral-rich territory, which is part of the Nato
alliance, drew outrage from Denmark and Greenland.
Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, called the post
“disrespectful”. “Relations between nations and peoples are built on mutual
respect and international law – not on symbolic gestures that disregard our
status and our rights,” he wrote on X.
But he also said: “There is neither reason for panic nor for concern. Our
country is not for sale, and our future is not decided by social media posts.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
