US President Donald Trump has written to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a letter that was subsequently circulated among European diplomatic missions in Washington, according to PBS News.
The letter, which staff within the United States National Security Council reportedly forwarded to several European ambassadors, sets out the president’s views on global security, NATO and the strategic importance of Greenland.
In the message addressed to the Norwegian prime minister, Trump linked the Nobel Committee’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize with a shift in how he approaches international obligations.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” the letter states.
The president went on to argue that Denmark lacks the ability to defend Greenland from external powers and questioned the basis of Danish sovereignty over the territory.
“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway?” he wrote. “There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.”
The letter also refers to NATO, with Trump asserting that the alliance should take steps in support of US interests.
“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States,” he wrote.
The message concludes with the statement: “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
PBS News reported that the letter was shared internally among diplomatic officials after being circulated by the National Security Council. Neither the White House nor the Norwegian government has publicly commented on the correspondence.
Our nuclear deterrent should be independent from the US, France does this and so should we.
Amen brother.
Independent and layered.
I’m beginning to think Trump Is a “Tall White” after all.
👀👀👀
It’s life Jim but not as we know it.
Ahhh, A Vulcan then !!!!
(You might need to ask Spock as he Isn’t talking to me 😁)
(visions of a Sulky Vulcan now)
Mmmm Greenland came under the Denmark- Norway crown in the 1380s,Denmark took full control in 1712!were were all these American’ boats?
The vikings explored N America in the late 10th century,soooo trumpy should wind his neck in claiming what boats went where and when! That means Norway could actually claim N America as theirs couldn’t they🤔
It’s been pointed out MULTIPLE times if there was a real security threat Denmark had no problem with US bases on Greenland under NATO treaties!
I blame American School History Lessons (Hollywood) for their severe lack of knowledge.
Ah, you are missing how this actually works.
Hollywood will create a movie which shows that ‘merica founded Greenland at the time of dinosaurs.
Greenland will be rediscovered as the new Jurassic Park pre-pre-pre-prequel in which the Tangerine Tinted Stable Genius will star.
This then becomes a constitutional fact, as it has been researched and put on screen by Hollywood, as part of MAGA doctrine.
There FIFY.
😅😅😅.
I have been to the US a fedw times for holidays and a couple on business and found their insularity and ignorance of the outside world amazing ( Oh dear like now like our our own young who are not intersted ) I was asked by an educated opera singer that my accent was so nice and where did I come from – I replied Manchester England – She replied Oh such a pretty town (Manchester in 1979 was anything but) It transpired she thought it was Manchester N H in New England I haven’t looked it up recently but the % of American’s with passports is very low
In defence of America’s low passport uptake:
1) A disproportionate share of Americans live in quite extreme poverty and taking long-haul flights to other continents is a pipe dream
2) America has natural beauty beyond compare in my opinion, and more variety than pretty well any country on Earth; from Alaska to New Mexico, the Rockies to the bayou. Not that many Americans at all make use of these stunning places, but in theory they wouldn’t need a passport to get the kind of experience in nature we would have to travel half the world for
I’m being too charitable I know, but still it’s not quite apples to apples
60% of transatlantic travel between the EU and the US are Americans. That doesn’t even account for the fact that there are 450m Europeans vs 340m Americans.
Europe is full of people who believe bar talk and conspiracy theories.
You might want to think about distribution
There is nothing to think about, it is a cold hard fact.
“Today, two-thirds of the long-haul international seats to and from the United States are on foreign flag carriers, even though 60 percent of the passengers are U.S. citizens,” he said. “We have a huge trade deficit in … long haul, international travel.”
…“The biggest reason is, by and large, international airlines are quasi-arms of the state,” he said. “They have various forms of state subsidies that allow them to fly a lot more seats, and … in most cases, they don’t have to do it profitably.”
It wouldn’t matter if the US did found Greenland, because:
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And they haven’t come much more destructive than the likes of the current US President in a long time.
Apparently we’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for the good old US of A.
Ha, We just might still be.
Hiel Trumpler !
Wasp…..Yes, America helped us out massively in the early years of WW2 – didn’t they join the war in 1939 in support of free Europe, send thousands of US fighter aircraft to fly alongside the RAF in the Battle of Britain, thus staving off a German invasion…or have I got it wrong?
France, Germany, and Italy would look like Ukraine and Belarus had the US not decided to invade Western Europe.
It’s got nothing to do with US security, but has everything to do with what’s under the earth in Greenland. They are vying for the minerals rights, using a supposed lack of security as a means to get those rights!
There are zero questions to be raised, asked whatsoever. European countries are just afraid of the reply as they did put security of their citizens at risk by being vassal to the us. The only reply is to build european capacities and adopt a kind of gaullist policy for Europe. The only thing de Gaulle did not predict, is the grotesque manner the US are splitting away from Europe.
I don’t think anyone was expecting trump to get a second term to be honest. We made the mistake of thinking right and reason would prevail, but the world seems to have moved beyond that.
To be honest I’m looking at the geostrategic hole the UK is in.. stuck between Europe and the U.S. and thinking that the French had the right idea.. I’m not liking the fact our nuclear deterrent is essentially dependent for its ongoing maintenance on the U.S.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination
De Gaulle
I see he’s still committed to proving that “Trump derangement syndrome” is real. Except it isn’t just Trump. We’re firmly into the age of the dictator now, lunatics running the asylum.
This clown has next to zero support in the congress for this Greenland thing. If William Spaniel is to be believed the military is in the same boat.
This will amount to a big fat nothing and people are getting overdramatic for no reason, just like last time Greenland came up in the news
It was proven around Venezuela that congress has no meaningful control of a president wishing to push the boundaries of executive power… essentially he can attack any nation he wishes up to and including beheading and regime change, the only thing he cannot do is a traditional land invasion with the army and full conquest and annexation.
Chiefly I see this about Trump pursuing a legacy, being the first American president to expand American territory in eons. I think he wants to enter the history books alongside Thomas Jefferson in that regard.
I see no other explanation – Greenland is under no threat at all from Russia and China whilst in NATO and would be no safer if incorporated into America – ultimately the same people would come to its defence.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he used his pseudo militia brown shirts to do the job!
I wonder how long the US establishment can let this loon continue; he’s lost his marbles on top of his personal ‘qualities.’
The man is like a spoilt 12 year old, not sure why there hasn’t been a thought process of is he fit to run the country or not, if I was American I’d be looking to get him checked because personally I don’t think he’s capable.
His (Trumps) previous references to ‘only defending what you own’ tell you a lot about his views on NATO.
If you believed in NATO, of the week before last, you would recognise that Greenland is secure. If not, what he says has a ring of truth, Denmark and the rest of NATO (excluding the US) would struggle to defend Greenland from any real threat from ‘over the Pole’. I suggest that there is no threat right now, at least nothing that compared to 40 years ago (when the US had a substantial number of resident personnel). In 100 years, if the ice has gone things might be different.
Entertaining times, the optimistic view might be that saner heads will prevail, even if we have to wait until 2028, 2032….
Is he really saying that with the huge number of F35s delivered to NATO it could do nothing against a Russia that can’t run a land war and has an ancient navy?
That is before we get to the 100s of Typhoon and Gripen that are around.
There are four decent aircraft carriers in eNATO…..loads of P8…..
Russia wouldn’t stand a chance of mass landing with aerial superiority denied.
Starting to think the guy has lost the plot, the Norwegian government does not issue the Nobel Peace Prize.
Good luck to him launching an invasion in the Arctic with no friendly bases near by. This sounds like a way to get a bunch of US service personnel killed over nothing and America slapped so hard with financial sanctions that the dollar dominance ends over night.
Jim The US doesn’t need friendly local bases to invade Greenland because unlike us they have a large Navy with dozens of huge Amphibious ships and the necessary fleet train to support them.
What he doesn’t have is the necessary Political support, the polling on this issue are horrendous on both sides of the political spectrum and they all know it.
No nation can base any policies on America. Trade, defence – both depend on the whims of a president who is, at best, delusional but anyway acting against the interests of the UK and Europe. I class the current America as worse than China and on a par with Russia. It’s a matter of damage limitation and self presivation – why our government is prevaricating on defence spending now totally unacceptable. America is directly threatening the UK with tariffs unless we support a morally repugnant and illegal action against a NATO ally. I’m gaining more respect for Macron on a daily basis – he seems to be the main person standing up for Europe (including the UK). America seriously needs to get their house in order before it loses all of it’s friends and has to stand alone against it’s real enemies.
Careful with your growing fondness for Macron. He is all bark and no bite, and most French people would support my characterisation of him there
Internally within France yes, but his foreign diplomacy skills are actually quite good. He should’ve never been president but maybe a role within Nato, EU or a foreign diplomacy body would have suited him better
As a distinguished politician perhaps the Gaza peace board would suit?
We are now in a holding action until the US mid term elections in November this year, unless there are any other significant events that temper Trump’s actions. If the US mid terms do not alter the state of affairs then the world order as we know it has truly been shattered. US polling shows overwhelming discontent with the current administration however US polls have been known to be wildly inaccurate in recent years. On top of this, all the discussions about Trump cancelling the election are becoming more credible by the day.
Regardless of the outcome, things have changed forever. We live in interesting times, or so the ancient Chinese proverb goes.
Trump reminds me of Joffrey from Game of Thrones.
Oh that’s just not fair to Joffrey
It is getting to the point where NATO starts to think about removing itself from US control. Putin’s intention was to break up NATO and it seems to be working. Europe and Canada needs to stand together. And of course if the US takes over Greenland and removes itself from NATO it loses bases, shared costs and has to manage the North Atlantic entirely on its own. It isn’t even as if Russia and or China was intent on invading Greenland anyway. We need to start thinking the unthinkable.
Maybe we got Sweden and Finland in exchange for the US. A bit different, but I can live with that.
Possibly even better, but we do need to build a capable resupply baseload. We may be able to avoid getting dragged into US adventures in future. Leave them to it. NATO is still North Atlantic without the US. It isn’t as if we need multi million boots on ground nowadays. Let European manufacturers get more business. I wonder how much we could sell the QEs for?
Wow, Obama got one after just 10 days in office and no accomplishments! I wonder why was that hmmmm?
Mostly because the guy he replaced was a massive war monger who set the Middle East on fire.
And it was a slow year for peace 😀
I think there’s a decent enough argument around such a historic moment for civil rights and reconciliation between ethnic groups that it warranted recognition given there weren’t many other candidates
Great to see Redshift, Clunker and NoPoet are all still here, I had a worry they had all disappeared 🤔😁
Should be some great friendly banter here now.
Shame they all no longer respond !
😅😅😅😎
The assertion that Denmark cannot maintain a credible defence of Greenland versus Russia or China is particularly asinine… that’s the whole bloody point of NATO! I think Don is losing his mind a bit, he has bloodlust and a critical oversupply of confidence post-Venezuela
I Look at all of this and think, is this Trumps way of telling the NATO members that the USA is sick of carrying the weight, numerous members have not been meeting the requirements so here we are…..
And yet the members still went to war when the US declared A5😉
European leaders keep making the same mistake over and over again with Trump, hoping in a change of direction and avoiding to accept what for most Europeans is already clear: the old order is over, Trump couldn’t care less about NATO and Europeans, he wants as much as he can get and if Putin and Xi don’t bother him then he won’t bother them. He would have probably moved much faster if it was not for his hope of getting the Nobel Prize, and if he was not worried on impact on stock markets.
In that context, better Europe accepts the idea it has to stand-up and fend for itself or it’ll be eaten alive, weakened more and more at every bite. Post-Brexit Britain will have to decide to either get closer to the EU or become a US satellite, too small to stand on its own in a world of giants. And if the EU collapses under Trump, Putin and internal nationalist parties, then the all Europe will become a land of colonies for the first time in a couple of thousand years.
The biggest mistake in American foreign policy history was getting involved in WW1 and supporting the British and French empires against the German Empire. The totally incompetent and racist Woodrow Wilson violated over 125 years of American wisdom by rejecting the foreign policy of George Washington who warned against entanglements on the European continent. This was mischaracterized as “isolationism” by ignorant Europeans who couldn’t tell the difference between being involved in the world and not getting entangled in foreign engagements that didn’t affect US strategic interests. And there was no strategic value to the US getting involved in the squabbles of continental Europeans. It resulted in over 100 years of unnecessary involvement in Europe’s affairs, the expenditure of trillions of dollars and, mor importantly, the shedding of gallon after gallon of American blood.
If the Europeans can’t stop Putin even though they hold massive superiority in treasure and manpower then it is their fault, not the US’s. Good riddance.
You do know the us got involved in ww1 because of germany s action at sea and Mexico and in ww2 because Hitler litteraly declared war on the us? Are you suggesting the us should not have defended themselves?
Dementia is usually sad to witness,
but terrifying when it’s sat behind the Resolute Desk.
Yes indeed, that is far the most plausible explanation for his Greenland episode. He is a most egocentric fellow, who craves attention, adulation and fame. Adding 20% to the USA’s land mass would write him into the US history books and assure a permanent legacy.
If he was really concerned about about some.future military threat to Greenland, he would be happy to see European troops and aircraft arriving there. Instead, he is having a tantrum with us, which is a distinctly odd reaction. Except that Europe has just thwarted his big land-grab plan.
Then there is the natural resources story. Greenland apparently has the world”s 13th largest untapped oil resource in the Greenland Basin, which would be very expensive to extract.There are rare earth minerals too, with one smallish site where work is halted because of the toxic waste emussions. Trump’s big oil and mining pals would no doubt like to get free rein there, but neither Denmark nor Greenland want another Prudhoe Bay ecological issue on their hands. The cosmetics billionaire scion, Lauder, is reportedly.one such pushing for the US to get in there. But they would need a Trump-type regime that didn’t worry too much about emissions and environmental damage.
I would think that is probably a factor in the equation, but not the main driver.
Could Denmark just sell It to Mauritius ?
(when I say “sell”, It’s what the rest of the world does rather than the UK Gifting it with £35,000,000,000)
Just a thought. 🤔