‘We don’t want to be Americans’: Greenland pushback amid US take over talk. But how?

Key Highlights

• There is nothing which could prevent the US from acquiring Denmark and taking over Greenland.
• Also the US enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland after the 1951 Cold War agreement.
• US exercises heavy military back  In the present state, the US has at least 100 military personnel stationed at its Pituffik base in the Arctic island.
• Trump can simply surge the number of personnel on the island under the treaty with Denmark to capture the territory. Trump has been continuously threatening Denmark and Denmark is taking Trump’s threats seriously.
• The Mette Frederiksen-led government has warned that its troops were under standing orders to “shoot first and ask questions later” if Greenland was attacked by the US. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADIt is part of a 1952 military directive that still remains in force.