Posted on 01/24/2025 1:18:02 PM PST by Miami Rebel
US President Donald Trump had a “fiery” and contentious phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen last week, during which Trump insisted he was serious about taking over Greenland, European officials told the Financial Times.
The officials, who were not identified by the FT, said the conversation had gone very badly, with one describing it as “horrendous.” Another official said that Trump’s intention to take over Greenland was “serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
For weeks, Trump has voiced his interest in taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, in what analysts say reflect his hardball diplomacy. Frederiksen has asserted that Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is not for sale.
While her office dismissed the officials’ “interpretation” of the Trump call, one former Danish official told the FT that Trump also threatened to target Denmark with tariffs.
Trump’s critics have warned that his interest in Greenland — which occupies a strategically important position for the US — will destabilize the US alliance with Denmark, Semafor reported, while Trump allies argue that a bigger role for the US in Greenland would be vital to national security in countering Russia and China.
The call is “likely to deepen European concerns that Trump’s return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever,” the FT wrote, while Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum argued that for Denmark, “the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity.”
Since his first term as president, Trump has floated the idea of annexing Greenland to expand US access to crucial Arctic trading routes and vast mineral resources. But he has recently doubled down on the proposal and has not ruled out using force to conquer the island.
The president has also expressed interest in reclaiming the Panama Canal which he claims has unfairly given China economic and security advantages in the region.
Yes, this is a good thing.
Yup.
Which poll or who said that?
Miami Rebel, we know where you’re coming from. Not MAGA, not pro-US.
“ Greenland is part of NATO so it’s not going to China.”
Mmmkay.
Greenland has a majority population (inuit) that is similar in ethnicity to N Alaska and N Canada
It’s outdated BS that works as a vector for globalist attempts to curtail the autonomy of the US. It’s far past time to pull out of that garbage!
NATO should be transferred to the EU with USA, Canada and Canada withdrawing.
*Turkey.
How long until Niels Vindmansen leaks a selectively edited transcript?
It was “horrendous” because they found out Trump is serious.
“Yes, but for economic retaliation, not for empire.”
Of course. He wants other countries to be unique and proud, just like America is unique and it’s “America First”. He’s said that all countries’ leaders should want “first” for their homelands.
Agree.
“Denmark has made it clear they don’t intend to part with THEIR SOVEREIGN TERRITORY.”
No it is not.
They took it over from whoever was there.
That is not sovereign, that is conquest.
Trump knows we need to be in control of the very north
for North America’s safety.
Greenland is part of that necessity.
I think Danes and NATO should be more concerned about Europe, and less about the Americas.
What’s your problem?
That is not sovereign, that is conquest.
Yeah. When the Danes were known as the Vikings.
Now they're woke.
So it's time for them to give up Greenland.
the stupidity is sometimes stunning… Indonesia, smh
Not in our sphere of influence, Greenland is.
We have no more business there. Period. Full stop.
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Yep. Both China and Russia will gobble it up, if we do not take control of Greenland in some dorm or another. The Danes cannot defend the island. Are you planning on taking courses in Russia or Mandarin?
WHAT PRODUCTS SO WE GET FROM DENMARK?
bullying isn’t a good look.
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What’s mote important to you: looking good, or national security?
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