Russia Monitoring Trump’s ‘dramatic’ Comments on Greenland Acquisition: Kremlin Warns Donald Trump to Stay Away From Greenland – Russia Has ‘Strategic Interests’ in Arctic; Mike Waltz Says Greenland Pivotal to Arctic Security Amid Russo-Chinese Threats

Russia monitoring Trump’s ‘dramatic’ comments on Greenland acquisition:

Kremlin highlights muted European response to President-elect Donald Trump’s acquisition comments: ‘it’s scary’

The Kremlin on Thursday said it is closely monitoring the “dramatic” comments made by President-elect Donald Trump over his desire to acquire Greenland amid his expansionist rhetoric to take over the Panama Canal and assume Canada as a “51st state.”

“The Arctic is a zone of our national interests, our strategic interests,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to a Reuters transcript. “We are interested in preserving the atmosphere of peace and stability in the Arctic zone.

“We are watching the rather dramatic development of the situation very closely, but so far, thank God, at the level of statements,” he added.

Trump, who earlier this week said he could not rule out using military or economic force to take the Danish territory as well as the Panama Canal, has drawn some rebuke from European leaders like German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who reminded the former, and soon-to-be president of the United States, that national sovereignty is a “fundamental principle of international law and a key part of what we call Western values.”

In a comment posted to X on Wednesday, Scholz, who has voiced “incomprehension” at Trump’s expansionist comments, said the principle of national sovereignty “applies to every country, whether in the East or the West.”

“In talks with our European partners, there is an uneasiness regarding recent statements from the U.S.,” he added, without mentioning which European leaders. “It is clear: We must stand together.”

Despite international concern over Trump’s comments, some European leaders appear to be toeing the line when it comes to the level of rebuke they have issued.

Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded to Trump’s comments on Tuesday by clarifying that Greenland is not for sale but added she was glad the arctic country was garnering international interest. —>READ MORE HERE

Kremlin Warns Donald Trump to Stay Away from Greenland – Russia Has ‘Strategic Interests’ in Arctic:

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday reminded President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to acquire Greenland, that Russia will protect its “strategic interests” in the Arctic region.

“The Arctic is a zone of our national interests, our strategic interests. We are interested in preserving the atmosphere of peace and stability in the Arctic zone,” Peskov said.

“We are watching the rather dramatic development of the situation very closely, but so far, thank God, at the level of statements,” he said.

Peskov was referring to Trump’s comments that he would like to acquire control of Greenland, possibly as either America’s 51st or 52nd state, depending on how his attempt to annex Canada pans out.

Peskov was incorrect that the acquisition progress has not passed the “level of statements,” since Donald Trump, Jr., was dispatched to Greenland on Tuesday. While Trump, Jr., said he had an “absolutely incredible experience” in that perpetual winter wonderland, he did not return with the deed to Greenland in hand.

The Kremlin spokesman noted that Trump is not the first American leader to suggest taking possession of Greenland, then needled the Europeans for failing to shut Trump down as quickly as previous bidders for the strategic hunk of Arctic real estate.

“Europe reacts very timidly and it is of course scary to react to Trump’s words, therefore Europe reacts very cautiously, modestly, quietly, almost in a whisper,” he said.

The Danes were not really whispering when they rebuffed Trump’s early overtures. King Frederik X made the polar bear representing Greenland larger on his coat of arms last month, a move seen as a jocular but firm denial by watchers of the royal family.

“It is important to signal from the Danish side that Greenland and the Faroe Islands are part of the Danish realm, and that this is not up for discussion. This is how you mark it,” royalty expert Lars Hovbakke Sorensen explained to USA Today on Thursday.

The Faroe Islands are another self-governing Danish territory, represented on the coat of arms by a ram, which also got bigger even though Trump has yet to express any interest in buying the islands.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen politely, but firmly, informed Trump his ambitions with regard to Greenland would never come to pass.

“We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,” Rasmussen said.

“I don’t think that we’re in a foreign policy crisis. We are open to a dialogue with the Americans on how we can possibly cooperate even more closely than we do to ensure that the American ambitions are fulfilled,” he said.

Greenland is currently administered by Prime Minister Mute Egede, who said his people are not pushing for independence only to become part of the United States. —>READ MORE HERE

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