Summary
Trump renewed calls for the US to annex Greenland for “national security” reasons during an Oval Office briefing, claiming “I think it will happen.”
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede responded on Facebook: “Enough is enough,” and planned to summon all Greenland’s political parties for a joint rejection.
Likely incoming Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen also called Trump’s statement “inappropriate.”
Trump also undermined Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying it was “very far away and really has nothing to do” with the island.
Danish Defense Committee Chairman Rasmus Jarlov warned that US annexation “would mean war between two NATO countries.”
If the right-wing media start inventing stories about Greenland, Canada and Panama being threats to the USA, I don’t trust the US public to see through them. Many will, of course, but then many saw through the Iraq stuff too, just not enough.
I hear Greenland has WMDs - in the form of melting glaciers that will cause some kind of climate catastrophe. /s
The only solution is to preemptively nuke those glaciers so they can’t melt on their own terms.
Genius. If you vaporize them they can’t melt.
The magic of thermonuclear thermodynamics!