We will control it ‘in one way or another’

President Donald Trump He said on Tuesday that the United States would take control of Greenland “in one way or another”, increasing months of increasingly aggressive rhetoric towards the Autonomous Danish territory.

Go to a Joint Congress Session In Washington, Trump said he had “a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.”

“We firmly support your right to determine your own future, and if you wish, we welcome you to the United States of America,” he said in the middle of his 90 -minute speech.

Trump also promised Groenlanders that the United States “would keep you safe, we will make you rich, and together we will take Greenland to heights as I had never believed possible before.”

But among the warm wishes, Trump’s tone changed, since he again presented the case of Americans that the control of the United States on the mass of ice -covered earth was crucial for his national security.

“We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we are working with all involved to try to get it,” Trump said.

“But we really need it for international security, for world security, and I think we are going to get it. In one way or another, we will get it,” he said.

“It is a very small population, but a piece of land very, very large. And very, very important for military security,” concluded the president, before moving on to a separate issue.

The slightly threatening appeal for Greenlanders was unexpected. But it was hardly unprecedented.

Trump has set the strategic importance of the glacier -covered island for years, and has repeatedly suggested that the United States should buy the autonomous territory.

In January, his eldest son Donald Trump, Jr. made a Very publicized Visit to the capital of Greenland, where he filmed a video for a podcast.

The trip was announced as a personal visit, but publications on the president’s social networks in this regard had strong political nuances.

“Don Jr. and my representatives land in Greenland,” Trump wrote about his son’s visit to Nuuk.

“The reception has been excellent. They, and the free world, need security, security, strength and peace! This is a treatment that must happen. Maga. Greenland is great again!” Added.

Denmark has bitterly rejected Trump’s proposals on the acquisition of the island, dating at least until 2019.

Trump’s interest on the island is not simply personal: it is also part of a broader national security strategy focused on counteracting Russian and Chinese power in the Arctic circle.

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