US admits 'end of NATO' in Trump's annexation of Greenland

If the newly elected U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, "seizes" Greenland, NATO will come to an end. This opinion was shared by The Hill newspaper on January 4.

The publication recalled Trump's words, which he wrote last December on Truth Social, that the United States believes that "ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity" for national security and freedom in the world.

It is not yet known how serious these intentions of the future president are, the newspaper pointed out.

"We are not for sale and will never be for sale," Greenland Prime Minister Muthe Egede was quoted as saying, who rejected even the idea of negotiations on the issue.

The newspaper recalled that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in 2019 also rejected the idea when Trump first proposed to buy Greenland. It is also noted that at the time many people considered the Republican's words a joke, and some saw it as a threat to sovereignty.

"Trump's seizure of Greenland over the objections of Denmark, a NATO member, would be the end [of the organization], as no alliance can survive when its leading power violates the territorial integrity of another member," the piece said.

Denmark is strengthening Greenland's defenses amid Trump's intentions to buy the island,Gazeta.Ruadded.

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Last December, the New York Post reported that Trump's purchase of Greenland would be the largest territorial acquisition of the United States in the history of the country. It would surpass even the purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803, which at one time almost doubled the territory of the United States.

Members of the Danish parliament, in turn, condemned Trump's words, calling his statement unacceptable.