{"id":333532,"date":"2026-05-12T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=333532"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:44:57","slug":"is-trump-about-to-open-latest-military-bases-in-greenland-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/is-trump-about-to-open-latest-military-bases-in-greenland-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump about to open latest military bases in Greenland? | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JD Vance paid a visit to Greenland earlier this yr (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

President Trump has never been shy about his desire to say\u00a0Greenland \u2013 a semiautonomous territory of\u00a0Denmark \u2013\u00a0as his own.<\/p>\n

The White House has now announced it has been engaged in \u2018high-level talks\u2019 with Denmark and Greenland in regards to the bases.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump has long claimed he needs additional US military support within the country to counter threats from Russia and China within the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

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The barren territory has strategic military holds (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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.<\/p>\n

Controlling Greenland \u2013 and even having more military bases \u2013 would give a nation an outpost in a significant naval corridor connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic.<\/p>\n

As climate change melts the ice caps, the once nearly impossible-to-navigate ocean is becoming more accessible, opening latest shipping routes.<\/p>\n

Trump has been eyeing up the island since 2019, but he\u2019s not the primary president to want control over it.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0US\u00a0has tried to purchase Greenland twice, once in 1846 and again in 1946.<\/p>\n

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Greenland operates as an independent territory (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1953, but it surely operates as an independent territory. Denmark cannot sell the region, for instance.<\/p>\n

The island\u2019s 56,000 residents even have the\u00a0right to carry <\/a>an independence referendum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But many\u00a0Greenlanders have expressed that they don\u2019t want their home to be bought by anyone\u00a0\u2013 especially not the US.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the vast majority of Greenlanders, but in addition Danes \u2013 and even\u00a0Americans\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 feel, in keeping with polling in January.<\/p>\n

The US already has the Thule Air Base in a distant corner of Greenland.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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JD Vance paid a visit to Greenland earlier this yr (Picture: Getty) 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\u00a0Greenland \u2013 a semiautonomous territory of\u00a0Denmark \u2013\u00a0as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[29527,5107,18256,395,1574,1313,813],"class_list":["post-333532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bases","tag-greenland","tag-military","tag-news","tag-open","tag-trump","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333535,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333532\/revisions\/333535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}