As the U.S. president revives his push for Washington’s control of Greenland, Norway’s defense minister says Oslo is helping defend America in the Arctic.
ANKARA — Norway’s defense minister pushed back on Donald Trump’s renewed pressure over Greenland, saying allies watching Russia in the high north are already doing real work on Arctic security.
“I used to say to my American [colleagues], we’re doing homeland defense for you,” Norwegian Defense Minister Tore Sandvik told POLITICO in an interview on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara.
The line was aimed at the heart of U.S. President Donald Trump’s argument that Washington needs more security in the Arctic and the way to do that is to own Greenland. The American leader this week said the island “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.”
Sandvik did not attack Trump directly, but he underlined that Greenland is a red line.
