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 in opposition to a scenario once thought of unthinkable.
“This isn’t nearly Greenland or the Kingdom (of Denmark). It’s about not with the ability to change borders by drive, not with the ability to purchase one other individuals, and it’s about small international locations not having to worry huge international locations,” 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 international locations, 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 getting ready for a potential army invasion, although it stays an unlikely state of affairs.
Issues have now emerged that the US might 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 acknowledged that Europe stays strategically and culturally very important to the US however urged that the established order might change.
Washington has warned that over the subsequent few many years, it’s unclear whether or not sure European nations shall be sturdy 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 significantly harmed Europe, threaten the US and subsidise adversaries”.
