The island \u201cshould\u201d belong to the US and no one can stop its annexation, Stephen Miller has said<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump\u2019s deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, has reiterated that Greenland \u201cshould\u201d belong to the US, calling it Washington\u2019s \u201cformal position.\u201d The senior aide, widely considered a key architect of Trump\u2019s agenda, claimed no country could prevent the US from annexing the Danish territory.
\nGreenland, an autonomous Danish territory, has been a flashpoint between Washington and Copenhagen since Trump\u2019s return to office, when he revived a proposal from his first term to take over the island, citing US national security. Tensions escalated last week when Miller\u2019s wife Katie, herself a former Trump staffer, posted a map of Greenland draped in a US flag with the caption \u201csoon\u201d on X. The cryptic post coincided with America\u2019s military raid on Venezuela and was followed by Trump saying Washington \u201cabsolutely needs\u201d Greenland.
\nAsked to comment, Miller confirmed Washington\u2019s ambitions. \u201cThe president has been clear for months that the US should have Greenland as part of the overall security apparatus. That has been the formal position of the US government since the beginning of this administration,\u201d he told CNN on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Pressed on whether military action was being considered, Miller deflected the question but insisted \u201cnobody is going to fight the US militarily over the future of Greenland.\u201d He questioned Denmark\u2019s claim to the territory, arguing, \u201cobviously Greenland should be part of the US\u201d if America, as NATO\u2019s leading power, is to secure the Arctic.
\nDanish and Greenlandic authorities have vocally rejected Washington\u2019s claims to the island. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has urged the US to stop threatening its \u201chistorically close ally,\u201d warning that a takeover of Greenland would effectively end NATO.
\n\u201cI believe the US president should be taken seriously when he says he wants Greenland,\u201d Frederiksen told TV2 on Monday. \u201cBut if the US were to attack another NATO country militarily, everything would stop \u2013 including NATO itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen condemned Trump\u2019s rhetoric as \u201cinsulting\u201d and \u201cunacceptable.\u201d
\n\u201cWhen the US president says, \u2018we need Greenland\u2019 and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not just wrong \u2013 it is disrespectful,\u201d he wrote on Facebook on Monday. \u201cOur country is not an object of superpower rhetoric\u2026 No more fantasies of annexation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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