A few days ago, the invasion of the US president officially began Donald Trump to other countries. He started from Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Now it reminds of earlier plans.
Among them, Trump stepped up his threats to Grenland, self-governing Danish territory in the Arctic, annexed to the United States of America.
If the US invades Greenland, it will mean the end of the NATO alliance, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.
Denmark New Year's SpeechSharp answer to Trump: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederksen / Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP
In an interview with TV2, she said that Trump should be taken "seriously when he says he wants Greenland."
"But I will make it clear that if the US decides to militarily attack another NATO member, then everything stops, including NATO, and therefore the security that has been established since the end of World War II," said the Danish Prime Minister.
Why does Trump want Greenland?
Trump has long insisted that the mineral-rich island, which is autonomous but part of Denmark and therefore part of the NATO military alliance, join the US, calling it a "strategic necessity" and refusing to rule out the use of force or economic coercion.
Greenland Election Photo EssayPhoto: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
"We're going to deal with Greenland in about two months, but let's talk about it in 20 days," Trump said, giving no further details on what would happen then.
Trump said this after the US launched attacks on Venezuela and arrested its president Nicolas Maduro. The dramatic development of events caused fears throughout Europe that Washington could now annex Greenland, which led to numerous statements that international law and the territorial integrity of states must be respected.
American aspirations to take over Greenland did not come until Trump took office last January.
Trump only fueled the centuries-old idea of American Greenland.
Suitors from the United States have been courting the world's largest island since the 19th century.
New is the only way Trump wants to do it.
What does the UN say?
Due to the situation with the ousted Venezuelan president, the United Nations Security Council held an urgent meeting on Monday (January 5).
Both allies and adversaries of the US today used the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to express their opposition to the US military operation in Venezuela, in which the leader of that country, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife were captured.
CORRECTION Trump GreenlandPhoto: AP Photo/Felipe Dana
Before the most powerful body of the UN, representatives of many countries condemned the intervention of President Donald Trump in that South American country and his recent statements in which he hinted at the possibility of expanding military action to countries such as Colombia and Mexico, due to accusations of drug trafficking.
They also referred to Greenland, and Denmark carefully condemned American plans to take over the mineral-rich island, without mentioning its NATO ally by name.
"The inviolability of borders is not something that is negotiated," said Kristina Markus Lassen, Denmark's ambassador to the UN.
Source: FoNet/N1
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