"We will get Greenland, 100%." Donald Trump in an interview with NBC explains that there are "possibilities" that the United States will take it "without military force" but "nothing is excluded."
An annexationist plan that Denmark does not like, as well as the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance who accused Copenhagen of having invested too little in Greenland. "We are open to criticism, but let me be completely honest: we do not appreciate the tone in which it was expressed. This is not how you address your close allies, and I continue to consider Denmark and the United States as close allies," said Danish Foreign Minister Lars L›kke Rasmussen in a video published on X.
Greenland itself, meanwhile , is freezing the Vances on the day of their controversial visit to the remote US space base of Pituffik, announcing after the vote a new coalition government in an anti-Trump vein. It will be led by the moderate Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of Demokraatit, which emerged as the largest party by tripling its representation to 10 seats in the March 11 elections. Nielsen had urged other parties to put aside their disagreements and quickly form a broad coalition government to show unity in the face of the US president's threatening campaign to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
His appeal was heeded by four out of five parties, which will control 75% of the seats, or 23 out of 31 in the Inatsisartut, the local unicameral Parliament. The only one left out will be the Naleraq party, the sovereignists closest to the United States, supporters of an immediate independence referendum. Nielsen, on the other hand, has a more wait-and-see position on secession from Denmark: in favor, but in the distant future, when the country's major problems will be solved.
(Online Union)
