The Danish Defense Minister announced the impossibility of Greenland joining the United States.

Greenland's inclusion in the The USA will not happen, its residents must decide for themselves what their future will be. This was announced on March 5 by Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen to the broadcasting company href="https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/live-storpolitisk-trekantsdrama-mellem-groenland-usa-og-danmark?focusId=9218423">DR.

"This is not going to happen. But where Greenland wants to go is up to the Greenlanders themselves to decide," Poulsen said.

He pointed out that you can't just take away a part of Denmark. At the same time, the minister stated that in the words of the US president There is a positive aspect about Donald Trump about Greenland: he respects the island's population and its wishes.

Poulsen said that sometimes it can be very difficult to take statements coming from the United States. Nevertheless, he stressed that Washington has been and remains Copenhagen's closest ally, despite Trump's words. The two countries need to have frank discussions, but this does not mean that Denmark refuses to cooperate with the United States, he concluded.

Why Trump needs control over Greenland. Parsing

Trump said in a speech to Congress on March 5 that the United States href="https://iz.ru/1849025/2025-03-05/tramp-ukazal-na-gotovnost-ssha-priniat-grenlandiiu-v-svoi-sostav-pri-ee-zhelanii"> We are ready to accept Greenland into our membership if its inhabitants want it. The president said he plans to take her to heights she "never dreamed of."

Prior to that, on February 6, it was reported that Greenland's ruling Siumut (Forward) party was going to href="https://iz.ru/1835199/2025-02-07/praviashchaia-v-grenlandii-partiia-namerena-initciirovat-golosovanie-o-nezavisimosti " target="_blank">hold a vote on independence after the general elections to be held on March 11. The main issues of the election campaign were the island's desire for independence and its relations with Denmark and the United States under the Trump administration, taking into account his statements about his desire to get the island.