What drives the United States’ bold geopolitical ambitions toward Greenland and Canada? It boils down to economic and national security.
Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.
The newly inaugurated president held forth on multiple foreign policy issues on Saturday, from Greenland to Canada to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Britain would have first rights to purchase Greenland before the United States, the Arctic territory's last Danish Minister has claimed. Tom Høyem, Copenhagen's former permanent representative to Greenland,
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appealed for a more united Europe committed to stronger defence during a visit to Berlin on Tuesday. "We need a stronger and a more resolute Europe, standing increasingly in its own right,
U.S. President Donald Trump aggressively defended his plans to take over Greenland in a phone wall with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Jan. 24. In the weeks leading up to his inauguration,
Speaking alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Berlin on Tuesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again condemned all territorial expansionist ambitions, regardless of who pursues them.
When Trump began rambling on about seizing Greenland on Jan. 7, most non-Americans saw it as a typical Trump stratagem to unsettle potential adversaries. He threatened to re-invade Panama and annex Canada at the same chaotic press conference, and the grown-ups elsewhere assumed that none of it needed to be taken seriously.
The Canadian dollar rose to a near three-week high against its U.S. counterpart on Monday, as investors weighed the potential for Canada's economy to escape broad-based U.S. tariffs and a report ...
Berlingske reported that among nearly 500 people surveyed, only 6% said they favored joining the US. Another 9% were undecided, while 85% rejected the idea. Almost half of respondents (45%) said they viewed Trump's interest in Greenland as a threat, the newspaper pointed out.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen received support from German and French leaders on Tuesday in her bid to keep hold of Greenland amid US President Donald Trump's threat to try to take the Arctic territory.