UK Prime Minister To Trump: ‘Hands Off Greenland’

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today Denmark and Greenland should determine Greenland’s future after Donald Trump revisited threats to take control of the Arctic territory.

The U.K. prime minister told reporters he stands with Danish PM Mette Frederiksen, who warned Sunday the United States has no right to annex the self-ruling Danish territory.

Via Politico:

“The future of Greenland is for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark,” Starmer told Sky News Monday. “Denmark is a close European ally, a close NATO ally, and the future therefore has to be for Greenland [and] for the Kingdom of Denmark, and only for Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.”

Pushed explicitly on Frederiksen’s warning that the U.S. has no right to take over the territory, Starmer said: “I stand with her, and she’s right about the future of Greenland.”

The PM also responded “yes” to the BBC when asked if he would join the Danes in saying “hands off Greenland.”

Starmer was responding to Frederiksen’s remarks to a Danish news outlet about Trump’s renewed comments about Greenland. Via Bloomberg News:

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that if Donald Trump were to attack the Danish island of Greenland that would mean the end of the NATO alliance. “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,” Frederiksen said in an interview with Danish broadcaster TV2.

“But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.”

Since his return to the White House, Trump has been jonesing for the U.S. to takeover the mineral-rich territory. On Sunday told reporters on Air Force One: “We need Greenland from a national security situation.”

‘The future of Greenland is for them and the Kingdom of Denmark – and for Denmark and the Kingdom of Denmark only’

Starmer tells ITV News the UK stands with Denmark after Donald Trump threatened to annexe Greenland pic.twitter.com/idS8ytiwH7

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