White House: No one will fight us over Greenland

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Published 07.19

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Archive photo. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/TT

Greenland should of course be part of the United States, and no one will fight militarily against the United States over the future of Greenland.

This is what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller claims.

– The real question is, by what right does Denmark exercise control over Greenland?

In an interview with CNN, Miller is pressed on whether the United States, in light of its actions in Venezuela this weekend, could act militarily to take control of Greenland.

– There is no reason to even think about or talk about this in the context of a military operation. No one will fight militarily against the United States over the future of Greenland, says Miller.

That the US “needs” the world’s largest island, an autonomous part of Denmark with extensive self-government, has been a mantra for US President Donald Trump since his first term in office. Trump now tells NBC News that the US needs Greenland “right away” and that he is very serious about the issue, but that the US has no timeline for taking action.

Trump advisor Stephen Miller emphasizes that it is the government’s formal position that the US “should be the country that has Greenland.”

Questioning Denmark

– It would not be a military action against Greenland, which has a population of 30,000. The real question is, by what right does Denmark exercise control over Greenland? What is the basis for their territorial claims?

Greenland has approximately 56,000 inhabitants.

The US, the deputy chief of staff tells CNN, is the center of NATO power.

– In order for the US to be able to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO, Greenland should of course be part of the US.

“Soon”

Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller, also a former spokesperson for the US government, posted a picture of Greenland this weekend where the island is draped in the American flag.

“Soon,” Miller wrote on X.

NATO member Denmark, through Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, has once again dismissed the idea and urged the US to stop threatening a historically close ally.

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has also reacted sharply.

“No more pressure. No more hints. No more fantasies about annexation,” he wrote on social media this weekend.