U.S. president Donald Trump. © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker
US president Donald Trump said Washington would halt the alleged Russian threat to Greenland, claiming that the Danish authorities had ignored warnings about this alleged threat for 2 decades. Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it is not curious in the autonomous territory of Denmark.
On Sunday, fact Social Trump stated that “NATO has been telling Denmark for 20 years that “you must remove the Russian threat from Greenland”.
Unfortunately, Denmark was incapable to do anything about it.
Now is the time and this will happen!!”
His message followed an interview with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who confirmed on Saturday that he had spoken to Trump "on the safety situation in Greenland and the Arctic".
Although Rutte did not give details of the conversation, he declared that both would proceed to work on this issue.
Last week Trump announced the imposition of 10% of the tariffs on 8 European NATO states – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, large Britain, the Netherlands and Finland – for opposing his efforts to take over Greenland and send tiny military quotas to the island.
He stated that the duties to enter into force on 1 February would increase to 25% in June until ‘total and full purchase’.
European leaders rejected these pressures, calling them "blackmail’ And an attack on sovereignty.
In a joint statement, 8 susceptible countries called the tariff threats a example "to undermine transatlantic relations and the hazard of dangerous decline".
The EU is preparing a retaliatory trade package and confirmed its "Full solidarity" with Denmark.
Trump has long portrayed the acquisition of Greenland, a country with about 57,000 inhabitants, but with an area of 2.17 million square kilometres, as a request for national safety to counter Russia and China in the Arctic, a claim that officials in Copenhagen, Beijing and Moscow consistently rejected as unfounded.
Russia, which has a immense presence in the Arctic, but is thousands of kilometres from Greenland, called the situation around Trump's annexation plans ‘unordinary’, noting that it considers the island to be Danish territory.
At the same time, Moscow condemned NATO's accelerated militarisation of the Arctic, informing that any actions that disregard Russia's interests in the region would have "negative consequences".
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/631145-trump-greenland-russia-threat/
