"Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela. The dead-of-night operation by U.S. forces in Caracas to capture leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife early Saturday left the world stunned, and heightened concerns in Denmark and Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Danish kingdom and thus part of NATO."
""If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops," Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 on Monday. "That is, including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War.""
Danish officials view an American takeover of Greenland as effectively ending NATO's military alliance and undermining post-World War II security. U.S. President Donald Trump renewed calls for U.S. jurisdiction over Greenland and suggested discussing the island within a 20-day timeframe, increasing fears of potential intervention. A recent U.S. operation in Venezuela to capture Nicolas Maduro and his wife heightened regional concerns. Greenlandic leaders rejected comparisons to Venezuela, urged calm and unity, and asserted that a takeover was not seen as imminent. European leaders expressed solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.
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