US government VIDEO promises to 'protect' Greenland

RT
Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:48 UTC

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A mural depicting a woman and a polar bear on the end of residential block in Nuuk, Greenland.

The autonomous Danish territory is threatened by "Russian aggression" and "Chinese expansion," according to a clip posted by Donald Trump

A video shared by US President Donald Trump on Friday has promised to defend Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, from both Russia and China. Moscow has not expressed aggressive intentions towards the island and has repeatedly denied Western claims of planning to attack NATO countries.

Trump has talked about making Greenland a part of the US since winning the presidential election in November, arguing that it is needed for security purposes. He has offered to buy the resource-rich Arctic territory from Copenhagen, but also does not rule out the use of force to bring it under American sovereignty.

The video - also shared by other White House figures such as JD Vance and Pete Hegseth - assured the 56,000 people living on the island that "America stands with Greenland."

It recalled the cooperation between Washington and territory during the Second World War, stating that "Americans and Greenlanders stood as sentinels at the top of the world."

"But today Greenland faces new threats from Russian aggression and Chinese expansion," the clip claimed, consisting of archive WWII videos, images of Greenland's landscape and footage of modern-day US military hardware.

The partnership between Greenland and the US "is not just history. It is destiny," the video on Trump's channel said. "Now is the time to stand together again - for peace, for security, for the future," it added.

The post followed a visit to Greenland by US Vice President J.D. Vance earlier this week, during which he told some 150 US servicemen stationed on the island that Washington would be "investing in additional military icebreakers, investing in additional naval ships that will have a greater presence in Greenland."

Vance blamed the Danish government for failing the people of Greenland, calling the island "extremely vulnerable right now," and insisting it would be much safer "under the US umbrella."

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that "Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic." He said that the region's "enormous potential" provides an opportunity for international cooperation in economic development, resource extraction, infrastructure projects and transport.

However, he mentioned that Russia is "concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts," and that Moscow is "closely monitoring developments in the region" and would move forward in "modernizing military infrastructure facilities."

Comment:
1) Less accessible than the statements from the larger powers are those from Denmark. However machine translations can help, and here are a couple of comments.
In the media Berlingske a commentator began his analysis:

J.D. Vance referred to Denmark in a way that is not 'accurate,' said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrat).

According to Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M), the words of the vice president at Pituffik Space Base on Friday night were 'inappropriate,' and 'maybe you should look yourself in the mirror as well,' he said.

In the same media there was an illustration on the online front page from their satirical cartoonist. The caption reads when translated: We MUST have IT

© Berlingske.dk

2) In the Danish media Jyllands-Posten.dk it is also reported what President Trump stated about Greenland in an interview with NBC on Saturday night, mentioned in an article from March 29, 2025, 11:59 PM GMT+1 / Updated March 30, 2025, 1:29 AM GMT+1:

President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview Saturday
[...]
Everything is on the table to obtain Greenland

The president on Saturday also said he has "absolutely" had real conversations about annexing Greenland, which is currently a semiautonomous Danish territory.

"We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%," Trump said.

He added that there's a "good possibility that we could do it without military force" but that "I don't take anything off the table."

This comes one day after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife, Usha, and spoke to service members at Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force base on the northwestern coast of Greenland.

While there, Vance said, "Our message to Denmark is very simple — you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland."

Asked what message acquiring Greenland would send to Russia and the rest of the world, Trump said, "I don't really think about that. I don't really care. Greenland's a very separate subject, very different. It's international peace. It's international security and strength."

"You have ships sailing outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we're not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States," he added.