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"European leaders have dramatically rallied together in support of Denmark and
Greenland after one of Donald Trump’s leading aides suggested the US may be
willing to seize control of the Arctic territory by force.
Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and
Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, declared that Greenland – a
semi-autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark – “belongs to its people”,
in a rare European rebuke to the White House.
“It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters
concerning Denmark and Greenland,” the three leaders said in a statement on
Tuesday, made jointly with the prime ministers of Denmark, Italy, Poland and
Spain.
Later in the evening, Starmer repeated British support for Denmark at a press
conference in Paris where Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, were present. “I’ve been very clear as to what my position, the
position of the UK government, is,” the British leader said.
But, anxious to avoid deepening the transatlantic rift, Starmer, Macron and
Merz chose to focus on making fresh security commitments to Ukraine, at an
event aimed at bolstering support for Kyiv planned before the Greenland crisis
broke.
The European declaration emerged in response to renewed US demands to seize
control of the self-governing territory in the aftermath of the capture of
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro by the US military.
On Monday night, when asked to rule out using force, the US president’s
influential deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, said “nobody
[was] going to fight the United States militarily over the future of
Greenland”.
In an interview with
CNN, Miller said military intervention would not be
needed in order to gain control over Greenland because of its small
population."
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
