The Trump administration is exploring a can-you-top-this monetary maneuver if it had been to acquire Greenland, The Washington Submit reported on Tuesday.
The newspaper wrote that one choice in a White Home value evaluation of a takeover is to basically “offer a sweeter deal” to the semi-autonomous Danish territory’s authorities than Denmark does. The Danes allocate about $600 million a yr to providers for the island, WaPo estimated.
The U.S. provide beneath White Home consideration “is a lot higher than that,” an official aware of the plans informed the Submit. “The point is, ‘We’ll pay you more than Denmark does.’”
In a go to to Greenland final week, Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of underinvesting within the territory. “You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” he stated to the European nation. The Danish overseas minister admonished Vance for utilizing such a tone with an ally.
The newspaper cited the price research as proof that President Donald Trump’s “musings” about annexing Greenland have morphed into concrete authorities motion.
Trump and allies have talked up Greenland’s significance to the U.S. for nationwide safety and its pure sources.
He’s tried relative candy speak in guarantees to speculate billions of {dollars} to make Greenlanders “rich” but in addition stated he’d take the territory “one way or the other.” In an NBC Information interview over the weekend, he didn’t dismiss the potential for power. “I don’t take anything off the table,” he stated.
The administration’s much-criticized model of its “manifest destiny” is getting particular pushback.
“We are not for sale and can’t just be taken,” Múte Bourup Egede wrote on Fb final month when he was nonetheless Greenland’s prime minister. “Our future is decided by us in Greenland.”
His successor, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, echoed the sentiment on Sunday: “Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future.”
