The United States needs Greenland for reasons related to "international security" and "world peace", President Donald Trump said today, quoted by Reuters and Agence France-Presse, BTA reports.
Speaking to reporters at the White House just hours after US Vice President J.D. Vance arrived on a visit to the Arctic island, which is a Danish territory, Trump argued with the Chinese and Russian presence in the area.
"We need Greenland. "Something very important, for the sake of international security, Greenland should be ours," the US president said.
He stressed that the stakes were not just "peace for the United States, but "world peace."
"If you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships everywhere," Trump said. He added that the US could not count on "Denmark or anyone else to take care of this situation."