In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island.
For weeks, Trump stuck firmly to a take-it-or-leave-it position on Greenland, insisting that nothing short of the U.S. owning the Danish territory would address his national security concerns.
On Wednesday, Trump made a detailed case for U.S. control of the island during an hour-plus speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Then, barely four hours after leaving the stage, Trump demolished any shred of validity to his claims.
The president posted on social media that he “had formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region” as a result of a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that lasted less than an hour.
I doubt its over, to me this seems more like they are gonna find a way to take it without military force and with less of a media spotlight. Probably through some kind of manipulatation or strong arming greenland to declare independence from Denmark and become a US territory/vassal state.
As we’ve seen with Venezuela, many leaders around the world are too afraid to condemn his actions and instead want to appease him to keep themselves out of the spotlight.