New tariffs for defending Greenland from US annexation. And new threats. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has carried out the blackmail announced this Friday to the European countries that oppose the annexation of Greenland, a territory dependent on Denmark, a NATO member country.
Thus, the US president has announced, “as of February 1, 2026, all of the countries mentioned above (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland) must pay a 10% tariff on all products shipped to the United States of America. On June 1, 2026, the tariff will increase to 25%. This tariff will be due and payable until it is reached. an agreement for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.”
“We have subsidized Denmark, all the countries of the European Union and others for many years by not charging them tariffs or any other type of remuneration,” the US president said in a long post in Truth Social this Saturday: “Now, after centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back: world peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland, and Denmark can’t do anything about it. Currently, they have two dog sleds for protection, one of them added recently.”
According to Trump, “only the United States of America, under the presidency of Donald J. Trump, can play this game, and with great success! No one will touch this sacred piece of land, especially since the national security of the United States and the world at large is at stake.”
“As if that were not enough,” says the US president, “Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland have traveled to Greenland for unknown purposes. This is a very dangerous situation for the security and survival of our planet. These countries, which are playing this very dangerous game, have put into play a level of risk that is neither sustainable nor defensible.”
“Therefore,” Trump says, “it is imperative that, in order to protect global peace and security, strong action be taken to bring this potentially dangerous situation to a swift end.”
“The United States has been trying to carry out this transaction for more than 150 years,” the US president has said about the annexation of Greenland: “Many presidents have tried, and rightly so, but Denmark has always refused. Now, due to the Golden Dome and modern weapons systems, both offensive and defensive, the need to acquire it is especially important. Currently, hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on security programs related to the ‘dome,’ including the possible protection of Canada, and this very brilliant but very complex system can only function at its maximum potential and efficiency, due to angles, measurements and limits, if this land is included in it.”
Trump concludes: “The United States of America is willing to immediately negotiate with Denmark and/or any of these countries that have put so much at risk, despite everything we have done for them, including maximum protection, for so many decades.”
The threat from the US president comes 48 hours after the meeting at the White House between his vice president, JD Vance, and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Lars Loekke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, respectively. Both Rasmussen and Motzfeldt rejected Trump’s imperialist ambitions.
“The Kingdom of Denmark continues to believe that the long-term security of Greenland can also be guaranteed within the current framework, the 1951 agreement on the defense of Greenland, as well as the NATO Treaty,” Loekke Rasmussen said this Thursday at the press conference after the meeting at the White House, in front of the Danish embassy in Washington DC: “For us, ideas that do not respect the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the people Greenlandic are, of course, totally unacceptable and we therefore continue to have a fundamental disagreement, but we also agree that we disagree and will therefore continue to engage in dialogue.”
“I think it is very important to repeat how important it is for us to strengthen our cooperation with the United States, but that does not mean that we want to be owned by the United States,” said Greenlandic Minister Vivian Motzfeldt.
Protests in Greenland
Thousands of people walked through the center of Copenhagen this Saturday shouting “Greenland is not for sale” and against the threats of US President Donald Trump to take over this autonomous Danish territory.
The demonstration, called by organizations of Greenlanders living in Denmark and a Danish NGO, began in City Hall Square, where, among others, the mayor of Copenhagen, Sisse Marie Welling, and several Greenlandic politicians participated.
“You can’t buy people off, you can’t change the map of the world according to the wishes of the powerful,” Welling said.
The Greenlandic regional representative Pipaluk Lynge highlighted, for her part, that “it is not just Greenland, but the entire world order that is at stake.”
The more than 15,000 people, according to the organizers, who filled the square then walked through the streets of the center waving Danish and Greenlandic flags and singing songs such as “Kalaallit nunaat, kalaallit pigaat” (Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders).
Source: www.eldiario.es
