Denmark has warned if Donald Trump attacks Greenland then NATO will be finished, this comes as the US President has said he wants the country “right now.”
Trump is interested Greenland’s mineral’s which comes after he launched an attack on Venezuela to capture President Nicholas Maduro and his wife who are now in a detention centre in New York.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told broadcaster TV2, “If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops.
That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War.
Frederiksen said Trump “should be taken seriously” over his demands for Greenland.
“We will not accept a situation where we and Greenland are threatened in this way,” she added.
Greenland and Denmark are bracing for a US military intervention as Trump told reporters, “let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days,” which has sparked fears across NATO and European leaders.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said that Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not the same as the US President’s demands for Greenland.
Nielsen said, “We are not in a situation where we think that there might be a takeover of the country overnight and that is why we are insisting that we want good cooperation.”
Nielsen added, “The situation is not such that the United States can simply conquer Greenland.”
Dario Battistella, Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, told the Express that “we cannot rule out the possibility” that Trump will attack Greenland, following the attack on Venezuela.
Battistella said, “If, according to his interpretation, “America First” requires the use of armed force, as is happening today in Venezuela and perhaps tomorrow in Greenland, Trump will launch wars he hopes to win quickly.
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