At an hour and a half long press conference on the war against Iran, President Donald Trump ended by mentioning Greenland.
At a press conference on Monday evening Danish time, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, repeated his wish to take over Greenland.
The hour and a half long press conference was otherwise about the war against Iran, which the USA is waging together with Israel.
Towards the end, Trump touched on Nato and criticized the alliance for not helping the US.
First, he referred to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as a “wonderful guy” who will visit Trump on Wednesday.
But Nato is a “paper tiger,” Trump said, referring to a Chinese term that covers a person or institution that outwardly appears intimidating but is not really that dangerous.
And then the talk fell on Greenland.
– It all started with Greenland, if you want to hear the truth. We want Greenland. They won’t give it to us, and I said goodbye (“bye-bye”), Trump concluded before leaving the press conference.
The president thus did not elaborate on his message further.
It was at the end of February this year that the US and Israel attacked Iran. Since then, Trump has tried to get help from America’s European allies.
He has declared that it will be bad for Nato if the European Nato countries do not help to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
But for now, the Europeans have said no, because it is not a NATO operation, and Trump or his government have not said clearly what the goal of the war is, or have involved NATO in the planning.
Trump’s interest in Greenland, on the other hand, goes back years.
It was in 2019 that he first expressed an interest in buying Greenland.
Since then it has reappeared at regular intervals, but the conflict between the USA on the one hand and Greenland and Denmark on the other flared up in earnest in January this year.
Here, Trump repeated the desire to gain control over Greenland, and initially he did not rule out using military force.
In January, Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M) was together with the Greenlandic Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, at a meeting in Washington in January.
Here, the issue of Greenland was discussed with the American administration, including Vice President JD Vance.
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