After threatening to annex Greenland earlier this yr, the USA is lodging a bid to open three latest military bases on the territory, it is known.
President Trump has never been shy about his desire to say Greenland – a semiautonomous territory of Denmark – as his own.
The White House has now announced it has been engaged in ‘high-level talks’ with Denmark and Greenland in regards to the bases.
The US proposal would see three additional military bases placed on the island, which could be designated as US sovereign territory, one source told the BBC.
Trump has long claimed he needs additional US military support within the country to counter threats from Russia and China within the Arctic Circle.
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Greenland sits in a very contested area over which international powers, including China and Russia, have been jostling for military control.
Controlling Greenland – and even having more military bases – would give a nation an outpost in a significant naval corridor connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic.
As climate change melts the ice caps, the once nearly impossible-to-navigate ocean is becoming more accessible, opening latest shipping routes.
Trump has been eyeing up the island since 2019, but he’s not the primary president to want control over it.
The US has tried to purchase Greenland twice, once in 1846 and again in 1946.
Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1953, but it surely operates as an independent territory. Denmark cannot sell the region, for instance.
The island’s 56,000 residents even have the right to carry an independence referendum.
But many Greenlanders have expressed that they don’t want their home to be bought by anyone – especially not the US.
That’s how the vast majority of Greenlanders, but in addition Danes – and even Americans – feel, in keeping with polling in January.
The US already has the Thule Air Base in a distant corner of Greenland.
Now generally known as Pituffik Space Base (pronounced bee-doo-feek), the post is home to 150 personnel, who keep an eye fixed out for ballistic missile attacks.
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