From Yahoo:
“Greenland PM Tells People to
Prepare for Possible Invasion”
Greenland’s prime minister said
the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for
a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as
President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory. “It’s
not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out,” Prime
Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a press conference in capital Nuuk on
Tuesday.
Greenland’s government will form
a task force consisting of representatives of all relevant local authorities to
help people prepare for any disruptions to daily life, Nielsen said. The
government is working on distributing new guidelines to the population,
including a recommendation to have enough food for five days stored in their
homes.
Trump has said he needs to own
Greenland for security reasons and had earlier on Tuesday posted an
AI-generated image of himself planting a US flag on the island. Greenland, with
a population of 57,000, is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but has its own government
overseeing most aspects of life bar defense and foreign policy. Denmark has in
recent days deployed more troops in Greenland to boost Arctic defense.
Greenland is under “a lot of
pressure” and “we need to be ready for all scenarios,” Mute B. Egede, the
island’s minister of finance and former leader, said at the same news
conference.
Meanwhile, Canada’s military has
modeled how it would respond to an American invasion after Trump publicly
talked about the country as a potential 51st state, according to a report in
the Globe and Mail, which cited unidentified officials who stressed they
consider a US invasion to be highly unlikely.
In a move to shore up security of
the territory, Denmark and seven other NATO countries last week deployed a
handful of officers on the island as part of the Operation Arctic Endurance.
Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command will now expand the military exercises to
potentially run year-round, a Greenlandic newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The US president on Saturday
threatened to impose new tariffs from Feb. 1 on the eight North Atlantic Treaty
Organization allies that are sending military personnel, escalating tensions
between Washington and Europe. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on
Tuesday warned Europe would have to respond if the tariffs are implemented and
that there could be “major consequences” on both sides of the Atlantic.
“If a trade war is launched
against us, which I cannot recommend, then we must of course respond. We would
be forced to do so,” she said during a question and answer session in the
Danish parliament. “I hope we do not get to that point. I hope that we succeed
in convincing the Americans that this is not the path we should take.”
^ Sadly, this has to be made
clear.
As an American I fully stand-with
Greenland, Denmark and NATO in all of this. ^
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/greenland-pm-tells-people-prepare-162519127.html
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