US BLAMES EU POLICIES
The White Home has framed Greenland as a nationwide safety concern, citing what it says is a rising Russian and Chinese language presence within the Arctic area.
Denmark has firmly rejected that stance.
Final week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned Washington has no proper to annex its territory, pushing again towards a scenario once thought of unthinkable.
“This isn’t nearly Greenland or the Kingdom (of Denmark). It’s about not having the ability to change borders by pressure, not having the ability to purchase one other folks, and it’s about small nations not having to worry large nations,” mentioned Frederiksen on Jan 13 forward of a assembly with US Vice President JD Vance on the White Home.
“That’s the reason we’re clearly talking out. And that’s the reason many allies are doing the identical, within the Nordic nations, in Europe and in the remainder of the world,” she added.
However on Tuesday (Jan 20), Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen mentioned the Arctic island wants to begin making ready for a doable army invasion, regardless that it stays an unlikely state of affairs.
Considerations have now emerged that the US may pose a looming risk to a fellow member of the NATO army alliance.
In its most up-to-date Nationwide Safety Technique, the Trump administration said that Europe stays strategically and culturally important to the US however prompt that the established order may change.
Washington has warned that over the following few a long time, it’s unclear whether or not sure European nations can be robust sufficient to stay as dependable allies.
The US blames insurance policies championed by the EU for its present trajectory.
These insurance policies embrace the bloc’s dedication to changing into climate-neutral by 2050, which the White Home has rejected as “disastrous ideologies which have so drastically harmed Europe, threaten the US and subsidise adversaries”.
