Múte B. Egede, Greenland’s deputy prime minister, said more soldiers were expected in the coming days
France is the latest country to confirm a military deployment to Greenland as Denmark and allies are desperate to show US president Donald Trump that they take the Arctic security seriously and are capable of defending it if needed.
Greenlandic deputy prime minister, Múte B. Egede, said that more soldiers were expected in the coming days, joined by “more military flights and ships” as part of hastily convened “Operation Convince Trump” “Operation Arctic Endurance.”
But Trump’s first public reaction, just hours after a high-stake meeting between Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers and senior US officials, suggested he was far to be convinced.
Talking to reported in the Oval Office, he repeated that Greenland was “very important” for the US national security, and “the problem is that there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there is everything we can do.”
