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A Danish politician shocked television viewers when he suggested a senior White House official had the ‘mentality of a rapist’.
Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov told MS NOW that Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, must be ‘kept away’ from young women after suggesting Greenland ‘failed’ tests.
Miller previously said on Fox News: ‘Denmark cannot defend Greenland. They can not control the territory of Greenland. Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years.
‘To manage a territory, you’ve gotten to have the option to defend a territory, improve a territory, and inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed on each certainly one of these tests.’
Jarlov responded: ‘I hope he’s refrained from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You may’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s principally what he’s saying.’
He also identified that the US has recognised Denmark’s authority over Greenland, citing several treaties.
Jarlov continued: ‘This can be a latest position from the American government, and now we have to have the option to trust the guarantees, the words and the alliances that we make with the Americans, because otherwise it’s not price anything, being an ally of the Americans.
‘And I believe it’s very crucial that we stay together because our alliance, our partnership, has kept us secure.’
The US stance on Greenland has change into more precarious in recent weeks, because the Trump administration pushes to take over the region for ‘security’ from Russia and China.
Trump has made no secret of his desire to get his hands on the mineral and oil-rich island, which is a self-governing Danish territory.
Greenland’s PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen also labelled Trump’s comments ‘disrespectful’.
He added: ‘When the President of america says that “we want Greenland” and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it’s not only unsuitable. It’s disrespectful.’
So as to add fuel to the fireplace, a former Trump administration official, Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, posted a map of Greenland in the colors of the US flag, with the caption: ‘SOON.’
Why does Trump want Greenland?
Although the world’s largest island is home to simply 57,000 people, mostly the indigenous Inuit, its natural resources and geographic position make it increasingly alluring for global powers.
‘I believe Greenland goes to be something that perhaps is in our future,’ Trump recently said. He has refused to rule out using military force.
Trump has been eyeing up the island since 2019, but he’s not the primary US President to want it.
The United States tried to purchase it in 1846, and again in 1946 – that point for a price such as £970million in modern value – when the Cold War was gathering pace.
Each times, they were knocked back, but Greenland was seen as having such strategic importance in countering the Soviet Union that the US kept a military presence there anyway.
With Denmark’s agreement, the US operate Thule Air Base to be able to sending American bombers across the Arctic to strike the Soviet Union and detecting missiles coming the opposite way.
There was one other base, a secret one, buried in a glacier 150 miles away.
Supposedly a research facility, Camp Century was actually presupposed to house nuclear weapons capable of launch through the ice sheet.
While Thule still exists – albeit now called Pituffik Space Base – the indisputable fact that Camp Century was lost 100 feet below the surface, until a team of NASA scientists found it again last 12 months, says something about changing diplomacy.
Meanwhile, tensions with Russia are higher than at any time for the reason that Cold War, and China – the USA’s latest major rival – is looking for to take a position in Greenland too.
JD Vance has previously said: ‘Plenty of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to make use of its territories and waterways to threaten america, to threaten Canada and naturally to threaten the people of Greenland.
‘Unfortunately, leaders in each America and in Denmark, I believe, ignored Greenland for much too long.
‘That’s been bad for Greenland; it’s also been bad for the safety of the whole world.’
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