NYT: White House Develops Plan For Taking Greenland Under U.S. Control
2- 11.04.2025, 7:35
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Trump's goal has moved from rhetoric to official Washington policy.
US President Donald Trump's long-held goal of ‘getting’ Greenland has now moved from rhetoric to official state policy. Government agencies have been sent specific instructions on the matter.
This is reported by The New York Times.
According to the US newspaper, Washington will try to take control of the Arctic island thanks to a campaign of persuasion, rather than by annexation.
According to the NYT, the plan will mobilise several US cabinet ministries that are behind Trump's years of talk of wanting to seize Greenland, whose economic and strategic value ‘has increased because rising temperatures are melting Arctic ice’, from Denmark.
Although Danish authorities have emphasised that the island is not for sale and cannot be annexed, Trump has repeatedly made it clear that he intends to control Greenland.
For example, during his address to Congress last month, the US president said that the Arctic island is ‘something we need for national security and even international security, and we're working with everybody involved to try to get it’.’ Trump also added that ‘one way or another, we're going to get it.’
According to a U.S. official, the White House National Security Council has met several times in order to turn Trump's words into action and has recently sent specific instructions to many government agencies.
Persuasion, Not Force
While the full details of the plan are unclear, despite the US president's hints about the possible use of force, the Security Council-led discussions have never seriously considered military options, the official told the NYT.
Instead, the policy is focused on persuasion rather than coercion, and includes public relations efforts to convince the people of Greenland (numbering 57,000) that they should ask to join the United States.
Trump's advisers have discussed the use of advertising and social media campaigns to influence public opinion on the island, a person briefed on the matter told the American newspaper.
It's worth noting here that the opposition political party, which favours rapid independence and closer ties with the US, came second in Greenland's elections last month with only a quarter of the vote.
In addition, the issue of a ‘shared heritage’ with the Inuit of Alaska will be highlighted more strongly to Greenlanders as part of the information campaign.
And Trump's advisers have also already begun to publicise their arguments, claiming that Denmark has been a bad guardian of the island and that only the States can protect it from encroachment by Russia and China. In addition, it will be pointed out that America will help Greenlanders ‘enrich themselves.’
The NYT also writes that the Trump administration is considering offering certain financial incentives to the island's population, including the possibility of replacing the $600 million in subsidies that Denmark provides to the island with an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenland resident.
Some Trump officials believe those costs could be compensated by new revenues from Greenland's natural resources, which include rare earth minerals, copper, gold, uranium and oil.
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