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Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that the United States should get "some benefit" from Greenland if it’s going to "be connected the hook for protecting this monolithic landmass."
Vance told reporters successful Armenia that, "it's very early in the Greenland talks," amid the Trump administration's propulsion to get the Danish territory.
"We've been moving rather a spot connected this implicit the past fewer weeks, but it's just very simple. Greenland is very important to the national security of the United States of America," Vance added.
"I bash deliberation that immoderate of our allies person under-invested successful Arctic security, and if we're going to put successful Arctic security, if we're fundamentally going to wage a batch of wealth and beryllium connected the hook for protecting this monolithic landmass, I deliberation it's lone tenable for the United States to get immoderate payment retired of that, and that's going to beryllium the absorption of the negotiations present implicit the adjacent fewer months," Vance said.
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President Donald Trump said successful mid-January that the U.S. needs Greenland "for the intent of nationalist security."
"It is captious for the Golden Dome that we are building. NATO should beryllium starring the mode for america to get it. IF WE DON’T, RUSSIA OR CHINA WILL, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!" Trump said astatine the time.
A week later, Trump said, "Based upon a precise productive gathering that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we person formed the framework of a aboriginal deal with respect to Greenland and, successful fact, the full Arctic Region."
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"This solution, if consummated, volition beryllium a large 1 for the United States of America, and each NATO Nations," the president said connected Truth Social.
However, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen past insisted that Denmark would not negociate connected its sovereignty contempt Trump announcing the "framework" of a deal.
"Security successful the Arctic is simply a substance for the full NATO alliance. Therefore, it is bully and earthy that it is besides discussed betwixt NATO's Secretary General and the President of the United States. The Kingdom of Denmark has agelong worked for NATO to summation its engagement successful the Arctic," Frederiksen noted successful a statement, which was written successful Danish.
"We person been successful adjacent dialog with NATO and I person spoken to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte connected an ongoing basis, including some earlier and aft his gathering with President Trump successful Davos. NATO is afloat alert of the presumption of the Kingdom of Denmark. We tin negociate connected everything political; security, investments, economy. But we cannot negociate connected our sovereignty," she asserted.
Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt said earlier this period that, "We are pursuing a diplomatic solution done negotiations" with the U.S. and that she is "hopeful and optimistic that we volition find communal crushed that respect our reddish lines," according to Reuters.
Fox News Digital’s Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
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