The Danish have caved and can enable US bases of their territory.
When US President Donald J. Trump expressed his need to realize management of the island of Greenland, it took most without warning, and generated a panic within the kingdom of Denmark.
Whereas the previous colony and current semi-autonomous territory has belonged to the Danish for hundreds of years, the geopolitical state of affairs might trigger a historic shift.
Greenland is situated between North America and Europe, making it important for monitoring Russian army actions, significantly ballistic missile threats and naval actions by way of the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) hole.
The U.S. already operates Pituffik Area Base in northwest Greenland for missile protection and house surveillance below a 1951 protection settlement with Denmark.
It supplies entry to the Arctic Ocean and rising transport routes, made accessible by melting ice, with a significant position in monitoring Russian and Chinese language naval actions.
“For functions of Nationwide Safety and Freedom all through the World, the US of America feels that the possession and management of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” — Donald Trump, assertion on Fact Social, December 2024.
And it’s on this context of a Trump stress to take management of Greenland that Denmark’s Parliament yesterday authorized a invoice to permit U.S. army bases on Danish soil.
Associated Press reported:
“Critics say the vote ceded Danish sovereignty to the U.S. The laws widens a earlier army settlement, made in 2023 with the Biden administration, the place U.S. troops had broad entry to Danish airbases within the Scandinavian nation.
The brand new parameters comply with Trump’s coveting of the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island even because the U.S. and Denmark are NATO allies.”
Denmark will be capable of terminate the settlement if the U.S. tries to annex all or a part of Greenland.
“Ninety-four lawmakers voted for the invoice, with 11 in opposition to. The laws now goes to Danish King Frederik X for his signature.”
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