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.
Absolutely. A win/win. Suck it Denmark.
Trump can and will strategically pursue all the USA needs. All at the same time. Regardless of feelings.
LOL! Good one.
You think that a territory that relies on Danish handouts will become a red state?
Trump is the only one who recognizes that if the Chinese or Russians take over this part of the planet, we are all in trouble. This is not just US national security.
Bribes may change their minds as well.
Anyone who has engaged in a business negotiation knows how this stuff works.
Unnamed sources = fake news same as eight years ago.
We bought Virgin Islands from them 100 years ago.
No reason why we can't buy Greenland from them.
Well, maybe we will offend their Prime Minister.
I think you can get something you want without just ‘taking it’. Trump knows that, too.
But he needs to be respectful as he does it.
“Well, either China or Russia will end up seizing Greenland in a couple of decades.”
So that’s pretty much an open invitation for us to freely invade allies if we think we know what China or Russia will do decades in the future.
Well, she looks like a dike anyway, so there's that...
It’s a “Monroe Doctrine” thing.
Guy you are all wet...We DO have much business there.
WE HAVE A BASE THERE. And a defensive alliance. China or Russia seizing it would be as much an act of war as if either were to seize Guam.
We may need the natural resources in Greenland.
Otherwise, China and Russia will secure a monopoly.
And they're not nice guys.
It's pretty much Denmark's fault for failing to develop Greenland and having a significant military presence there.
You are over-reacting here.
If you had followed President Trump at all for the past eight years you would understand his method of operation.
It is classic business tactics.
Make a demand. (Bad cop.)
The other side gets upset.
Offer something they want. (Good cop.)
Get them talking.
Work out a win win deal.
This is basic stuff—how to negotiate anything.
“Dangerous? Like what is Greenland going to do about it??”
No reason for ruff stuff.
Just send 50,000 Americans there uninvited, have them register to vote, and take over at the ballot box.
That is the way Mexico took back control of California.
“We DO have much business there.”
We have much more business in Indonesia. Should we invade it too, while we’re at it?
Indonesia isn’t in the Western Hemisphere.
Metta certainly looks like a big ole bull dyke.
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