Donald Trump IS STILL Trying to Steal Greenland?…..

The US and Greenland are working to update a Defense Agreement ….

With any other American President there wouldn’t be worries ….

With Donald, the Real Estate guy?

There SHOULD be worries….

 

An investigation by The New York Times, based on interviews with officials in Washington, Copenhagen and Greenland, has discovered:

• The United States is trying to modify a longstanding military arrangement to ensure American troops can stay in Greenland indefinitely, even if Greenland becomes independent. The notion is basically a forever clause, and Greenlanders do not like it.

• The United States has pushed the talks beyond military matters and wants effective veto power over any major investment deals in Greenland to box out competitors like Russia and China. Greenlanders and Danes strongly object to this.

• The United States is discussing cooperation with Greenland on natural resources. The island is loaded with oil, uranium, rare earths and other critical minerals, though much of it is burieddeep beneath Greenland’s ice.

• The Pentagon is rapidly moving ahead on plans for a military expansion and recently sent a Marine Corps officer to Narsarsuaq, a town in southern Greenland, to inspect the World War II-era airport, the harbor and places where American troops could be housed.

The American demands are so steep, Greenlandic officials fear, that they amount to a major imposition on their sovereignty. Despite all of the talk from Danish and American officials that Greenland’s future is up to the island’s 57,000 people, Greenlandic officials said the American demands would tie their hands for generations.

If the Americans get everything they want, said Justus Hansen, a member of Greenland’s Parliament, there will never be any “real independence.”

“We might as well raise our own flag halfway,” he said…..

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Negotiators have met about five times in Washington since January, when Mr. Trump threatened to seize Greenland, saying it was essential to American national security. Though he eventually backed down and has since been absorbed by the conflict in Iran, the White House has indicated he is still deeply interested in Greenland.

So the Greenlandic, Danish and American negotiators involved in the talks hope they can reach a deal that the mercurial president will accept, officials familiar with the discussions say. The accounts made clear that there was still some distance to go. The officials who spoke to The Times asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the continuing negotiations….

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Greenlanders have been emphatic they do not want to be part ofthe United States, but Greenlandic politicians say they are OK with having more American soldiers on their soil. Thousands of American troops were stationed there during World War II and the Cold War, though the United States eventually shut down every base save one.

Still, Greenland’s leaders feel they are being pressured to make other concessions and that they have little leverage in these talks.

“None of this is fair,” said Pipaluk Lynge, the chairwoman of the Greenlandic Parliament’s foreign affairs committee. “It feels very all or nothing. The best outcome is simply not to be invaded or controlled.”

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Since this IS a agreement between America and ANOTHER country shouldn’t the US Senate have the final word FOR America?