Denmark, Greenland and Donald Trump
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A bipartisan group of Senators is in Denmark speaking to officials there as President Trump announces new tariffs and continues to talk about taking over Greenland.
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Jeanne Shaheen among bipartisan group preparing to go to Denmark to ease Greenland tensions
The visit is meant to show unity with the people of Denmark after President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. take control of Greenland to prevent Russian or Chinese control.
Leaders of the bipartisan delegation said most Americans don’t want to acquire Greenland, and that Russia and China don’t pose imminent security risks to the territory.
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Danish citizens say President Trump's latest push to control Greenland is changing their view on Denmark's relationship with America.
It remains to be seen what lasting damage the episode has done, particularly to how other members of NATO regard and trust the United States.
Indeed, none of the shifting rationales offered by the Trump administration makes any sense -- particularly the supposed national security grounds for annexation. It's impossible to say what the United States might gain from such a move because the country would not gain anything from it.
That’s how Danish veteran Gerth Sloth Berthelsen, who grew up in Greenland, said he feels about the United States’ recent behavior. Berthelsen served alongside American forces in a peacekeeping mission to North Macedonia in 1996 and 1997.