Greenland Responds After Trump Says US Will Control Island ‘One Way or the Other’

The island is crucial to strengthen America’s security in the Arctic region amid Russian and Chinese threats.
Greenland Responds After Trump Says US Will Control Island ‘One Way or the Other’
Icebergs and pieces of ice drifting at sunset along the Scoresby Sound Fjord in Eastern Greenland on Aug. 16, 2023. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images
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Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede dismissed notions of an American takeover of the island after President Donald Trump reiterated that Greenland would eventually come under the governance of the United States.

“We don’t want to be Americans, nor Danes; We are Kalaallit. The Americans and their leader must understand that. We are not for sale and cannot simply be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland,” Egede said in a March 5 Facebook post.
Naveen Athrappully
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