#arctic-geopolitics

#arctic-geopolitics

We emphasise once again our desire for the US contempt for our country to end, the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement late on Friday. We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

The White House said in a statement in response to queries from Reuters that Trump sees acquiring Greenland as a US national security priority necessary to "deter our adversaries in the Arctic region." "The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilising the US military is always an option at the commander-in-chief's disposal," the White House said.

Denmark has summoned the United States charge d'affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark's main national broadcaster reported that the government believed that at least three people with connections to Donald Trump's administration have been carrying out covert influence operations aimed at promoting Greenland's secession from Denmark to the United States.