“Denmark has not been able to do anything to get the ‘Russian threat’ away from Greenland. Now it is time, and it will be done,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday.
"NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that "you have to get Russian threat away from Greenland." Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it," Trump wrote in a post on the social media website he owns called Truth Social.
The White House, the Danish Presidency in the European Union, and Denmark's foreign affairs ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
Trump has repeatedly insisted he will settle for nothing less than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have insisted the island is not for sale and does not want to be part of the United States.
The encroaching presence of China and Russia makes Greenland vital to U.S. security interests, Trump has said.
Danish and other European officials have pointed out that Greenland is already covered by NATO's collective security pact.
Meanwhile, European Union ambassadors reached broad agreement on Sunday to intensify efforts to dissuade U.S. President Donald Trump from imposing tariffs on European allies, while also preparing retaliatory measures should the duties go ahead, EU diplomats said.
Trump vowed on Saturday to implement a wave of increasing tariffs from 1 February on EU members Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, until the U.S. is allowed to buy Greenland, a step major EU states decried as blackmail.
EU leaders are set to discuss options at an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday (22 January). One option is a package of tariffs on €93 billion ($107.7 billion) of U.S. imports that could automatically kick in on 6 February after a six-month suspension.
The other is the so far never used 'Anti-Coercion Instrument' (ACI), which could limit access to public tenders, investments or banking activity or restrict trade in services, in which the U.S. has a surplus with the bloc, including in digital services.
The tariff package appeared to command broader support as a first response than anti-coercion measures, where the picture was currently "very mixed," according to an EU source.
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