The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has further warmed the visit of his vice president to Greenland next Friday, including criticism from local authorities to “provocations” and “aggressiveness” of Americans for the white house ambitions … The huge island in the Arctic.
«We need Greenland for international security issues. We need it and we have to have it, ”Trump said Wednesday in an interview at the Podcast of Vince Coglianese.
“I’m sorry to have to say so, but we will have to stay it,” Trump added about Greenland, a territory with growing interest for the US in the competition with China and Russia in the Arctic and for its enormous natural resources, among others, key minerals for the technological industry. Trump said he did not know if the premises have a desire to become American citizens. “But we have to convince them,” he added.
Trump’s latest statements make firewood to the fire of Vance’s visit this week to Greenland, a territory with autonomous government and under the sovereignty of Denmark. It is the most rank authority of the Trump administration that visits the island, after the president has insisted since before reaching the White House that his intention is to acquire the territory. In his past speech on the state of the Union, Trump said that the US will stay “in one way or another.”
The ambition for Arctic island is within the expansionism that Trump is showing in his second term, which seems willing to Do not leave the presidency without increasing the US territory. In addition to the purchase of Greenland, Trump has defended the need to annex Canada and turn the neighboring country into the 51st state, has demanded the recovery of the control of the Panama Canal and has proposed, in a crazy way, to expel the Palestinians of Gaza and turn the strip into a tourist resort of US property.
Vance announced his visit to Greenland this Tuesday, after last weekend it was known that his wife, Usha Vance, was going to travel the island. Initially, the second lady planned to go to a national sled competition lying by dogs, a very popular event in Greenland. This caused the rejection of local authorities. The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, defended that the visit was an “unacceptable pressure.”
The incorporation of the vice president to the trip came from the hand of an itinerary change: they would only go to an American base in northern Greenland, and not to the sports competition or any of the most populated localities of the island. This caused relief in both Greenland and Denmark. But the trip will also be an attempted distraction regarding the scandal of the messages of Signal revealed to a journalist, in which Vance had a leading role.
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