Not Funny: Trump's Threats to Greenland Would End NATO
By Carol J Williams
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February 3, 2025
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Almost three decades ago, the United States joined seven other countries with territory surrounding the North Pole in a new alliance — the Arctic Council — pledging to make mankind’s northernmost communities a zone of peace.
Now, U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening those Arctic allies with economic sabotage or military action in a strongarm attempt to seize Greenland and plunder its rich deposits of oil, gas, precious metals and rare-earth elements.
In a menacing ultimatum more befitting a mafioso than a newly empowered world leader, Trump has declared that Greenland will become an American property one way or another, claiming the resource-rich island is “an absolute necessity” for U.S. national security.
“I think we’re going to have it,” he boasted to journalists covering his visits to disaster zones in North Carolina and California last week. That was his wishful-thinking takeaway from phone calls with Danish officials who’d told him in no uncertain terms that Greenland is not for sale.
https://www.postalley.org/2025/02/03/not-funny-trumps-threats-to-greenland-would-end-nato/
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