The government of Denmark, which responds to the insistence of President Trump that he wants to win Greenland, announced that it will increase military spending in the northern Atlantic equivalent to $ 2 billion.
“Greenland is facing a changing security environment,” said Vivian Motzfeldt, member of the Greenland government, in Monday’s statement announcing increased expenses.
Greenland, a gigantic island in the northern Atlantic, which is a semi -autonomous territory of Denmark, has Received on a strategic meaning In recent years, LED has been melted and transporting lanes for international business opens. Just a few days to his second term of office, President Trump Called to take over control over Greenland and refused to exclude the use of military or economic power to do so.
For the purposes of national security, Mr. Trump said: “Ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”
Increased expenditures of Copenhagen are part of the agreement on the polar and northern Atlantic between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroes arelands that were agreed as tribes between the United States, Russia and China last year, which spilled into the Arctic. However, the announcement of increased money was most likely released when tensions grew with the United States over Greenland, said Niels Thulesen Dahl, political analyst of Danish daily Jyllands-Postena.
As part of the measures, the Danish government, together with the Greenland and Faroe, will buy three polar naval vessels to guard the waters around the islands. According to an official statement, they will also gain two drones and satellites with long reach and satellites to improve the supervision of the area.
The new budget will also help to provide training for young people in Greenland “To acquire important skills that will allow them to take responsibility for their readiness,” the Danish government said.
“We must face the fact that there are serious challenges on security and defense in the Arctic and North Atlantic,” said Troels Lund Poulsen, Danish Minister of Defense.
The day after the announcement, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met Chancellor Olaf Scholz from Germany, French President Emmanuel Macron and the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty, Mark Rutte. Her tour of Western allies with whistle came after a phone call with Mr. Trump last week, which European officials described as questionable And sometimes aggressive.
According to Mr. Dahl, the analyst “The agreement became slightly larger than it would otherwise,” and noted that this announcement showed that Denmark and Greenland shared interests and dispersed the impression that the inhabitants of the North Atlantic, many of which are people from Inuit, accepted would the United States if they should try to take over the island.
“Most of the current discussions and tensions feed on the narrative that Denmark and Greenland do not have shared interests and that the Greenci just want to move from Denmark and the American weapons as quickly as possible,” Mr. Dahl said. The way he said is not accurate.