Greenland: Siltanews – News Desk
It is “shameless” for the US president to threaten American ally Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said FILE PHOTO: Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen © Getty Images / Andrzej Iwanczuk.
US President Donald Trump should drop his plans to take control of Greenland as its residents do not want to become Americans, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.
Trump has been talking about making Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, part of the US since winning a second term in the White House in November. He has offered to buy the resource-rich Arctic territory from Copenhagen, but also warned that he could go as far as using force to bring it under Washington’s sovereignty.
“I do not say I am going to do it, but I do not rule out anything,” the US president said of a possible military scenario in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press earlier this month. “We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people [around 57,000], which we will take care of, and we will cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security,” he claimed.