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MEP Henrik Dahl has defended NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's comments this week regarding the EU's reliance on the US to defend itself. In an opinion article for Euronews, the Danish European lawmaker...
A high stakes meeting between the foreign minister of Denmark, his Greenland counterpart and the Trump administration yielded no resolution to US demands to own the territory. European allies will participate in joint troop mission to Greenland in show of support for Denmark.
Greenland is at the center of a geopolitical storm as U.S. President Donald Trump is insisting he wants to own the island — and the residents of its capital Nuuk say it is not for sale.
Danish soldiers must open fire even without orders if US troops were to try and capture Greenland by force, according to a 1952 directive that Denmark's Defence Ministry confirmed remains in place, domestic media reported.
Tensions with NATO members escalated after the White House said Tuesday that the “US military is always an option.” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned earlier this week that a US takeover would amount to the end of NATO.
Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela.
Denmark's Mette Frederiksen "everything would stop" in the event of a US attack on another NATO country. Donald Trump has said that Washington should take control of the autonomous Arctic island.
