Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a property league astatine the Chancellery successful Berlin, Germany, Jan. 28, 2025.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned President Donald Trump to halt threatening to get Greenland conscionable a time aft the U.S. carried retired a subject cognition that captured Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro.
"The Kingdom of Denmark — and frankincense Greenland — is portion of NATO and is truthful covered by the alliance's information guarantee. We already person a defence statement betwixt the Kingdom and the United States today, which gives the United States wide entree to Greenland," Frederiksen said Sunday, successful a statement.
"I would truthful powerfully impulse the United States to halt the threats against a historically adjacent state and against different state and different radical who person said precise intelligibly that they are not for sale," she said.
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The informing from Frederiksen comes aft Trump was quoted by The Atlantic magazine, saying, "We bash request Greenland, absolutely."
Trump ordered a subject cognition implicit the play that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The brace has been brought to the U.S. connected drug-related charges.
The cognition came aft months of U.S. subject buildup and threats against Venezuela, which the Trump medication claims is complicit successful trafficking drugs to the U.S.
The determination to topple Maduro led to speculation that Trump's different territorial ambitions could beryllium obtained by force.
Katie Miller, the woman of apical White House adjutant Stephen Miller, posted to X a representation of Greenland covered with an American emblem with the caption "SOON," soon aft Maduro was captured.
Trump has agelong mused astir acquiring Greenland, the mineral-rich and self-governing territory of Denmark. Last month, helium appointed Louisiana's GOP Gov. Jeff Landry peculiar envoy to Greenland. Trump has besides openly spoken astir making Canada, an autarkic nation, the 51st authorities of the U.S.
Greenland and Canada person some repeatedly rebuked Trump's advances.
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