“THIS IS AMERICA NOW”
Thomas Crosbie, an affiliate professor of army operations on the Royal Danish Protection Faculty, mentioned an American takeover wouldn’t enhance upon Washington’s present safety technique.
“America will acquire no benefit if its flag is flying in Nuuk versus the Greenlandic flag,” he advised the AP. “There’s no advantages to them as a result of they already take pleasure in all the benefits they need. If there’s any particular safety entry that they need to enhance American safety, they’ll be given it as a matter in fact, as a trusted ally. So this has nothing to do with bettering nationwide safety for america.”
Denmark’s parliament permitted a invoice final June to permit US army bases on Danish soil. It widened a earlier army settlement, made in 2023 with the Biden administration, the place US troops had broad entry to Danish air bases within the Scandinavian nation.
Rasmussen, in a response to lawmakers’ questions, wrote over the summer time that Denmark would be capable to terminate the settlement if the US tries to annex all or a part of Greenland.
However within the occasion of a army motion, the US Division of Defence at the moment operates the distant Pituffik Area Base, in northwestern Greenland, and the troops there might be mobilised.
Crosbie mentioned he believes the US wouldn’t search to harm the native inhabitants or interact with Danish troops.
“They don’t have to deliver any firepower. They don’t to deliver anyone.” Crosbie mentioned Wednesday. “They might simply direct the army personnel at the moment there to drive to the centre of Nuuk and simply say, ‘That is America now,’ proper? And that may result in the identical response as in the event that they flew in 500 or 1,000 folks.”
The hazard in an American annexation, he mentioned, lies within the “erosion of the rule of legislation globally and to the notion that there are any norms defending anyone on the planet.”
He added: “The affect is altering the map. The affect I don’t suppose can be storming the parliament.”
