The Greenland game: UK’s Starmer, Denmark’s Frederiksen, US’ Trump.
Geopolitical waves are shaking the planet once everyone realized that US President Donald J. Trump was dead serious in his intent to control the island of Greenland, via purchase or else.
With Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her government in crisis mode and the King changing the Royal Coat of Arms to better display Greenland, the subject is on everyone’s minds.
Now, the island’s last Danish minister comes forward to say that, according to a 1917 agreement, Britain would have the right to buy Greenland before the US.
The Telegraph reported:
“Tom Høyem was Copenhagen’s last permanent representative in the Arctic territory, which established its own parliament in 1979 and began a new era of self-rule 30 years later.”
Donald Trump was blunt in his call with Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister: he wants Greenland under American control.
But according to Høyem, Trump would require approval from UK PM Keir Starmer, because of an agreement signed in 1917, at the first time the US showed interest in acquiring the island.
“’If Trump tried to buy Greenland, he would have to ask London first’. Mr. Høyem added: ‘The United Kingdom demanded in 1917 that if Greenland were to be sold then the UK should have the first right to buy It’.”
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The agreement stemmed from the fact that Canada was a British dominion at that time, and it sits a few miles from Greenland.
“Mr. Høyem said that Woodrow Wilson, the US president at the time, then agreed that Greenland was and would always be Danish.”
The Telegraph quotes a source on Trump’s team saying the purpose of the planned expansion was to show Beijing that American interests in the Arctic will be protected.
Danish media: USA Dreams of Greenland for 200 years.
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“The Pentagon’s latest Arctic strategy, published late last year, shows China is taking an increased interest in the region.
Denmark has previously been willing to sell its overseas territories, offering the Danish West Indies to Prussia in 1864 and to the US in 1867. A deal was eventually struck during the First World War when the islands were sold to the US for $25 million, equivalent to around $700 million (£560 million) today, and renamed the US Virgin Islands.”
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