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This is about critical minerals. This is about natural resources. This is about, as the polar ice caps pullback, the Chinese are now cranking out ice breakers and pushing up there as well. So it's oil and gas. It's our national security."
You have Russia that is trying to become king of the Arctic, with 60-plus ice breakers, some of them nuclear power,
We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,
Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said He's popular in Greenland. So he can clearly be helpful to the Danish-Greenlandic relationship,
Damien Degeorges, a Reykjavik-based consultant specialising in Greenland, told Reuters I find it extremely ridiculous,
said Jeppe Finne Sorenson, a data engineer in the Danish capital In my discussions with our European partners, a certain lack of understanding has emerged with regard to recent statements from the USA,
The Danes are hoping that this will blow over with time,
The principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, regardless of whether it is to the east or west of us,
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,
This principle applies and is a foundation of our peaceful order,
We are talking about fairly wild hypothetical stuff about an administration that hasn't come in yet."
As for Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to take over Greenland, a European Commission spokesperson said But we are indeed speaking of something extremely theoretical on which we will not want to elaborate,
There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,
I do not get any impression that we are in any foreign policy crisis,
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told Danish media We need Greenland for national security purposes,
Combined with the melting in the Arctic and new shipping routes opening up, we unfortunately also see increasing great power rivalries,
Rasmussen said, calling American interest in the Danish territory in that global context “legitimate,” and that I agree with Prime Minister Frederiksen, who said she cannot imagine the situation coming to that,
Former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg backed Denmark’s prime minister as well ... he said, referring to a hypothetical U.S. invasion of Greenland I think we can all do ourselves a favor and turn down the pulse a little bit,
We see a Russia that is also rearming itself. We see a China that is also beginning to take an interest. It is entirely legitimate that both from the American side and, for that matter, NATO’s side — and thereby also Denmark —there is attention to this,
It will likely become a bigger contributor in the future.' ... That impact is 'perhaps unstoppable,
Serreze added ... Holland said
