"The United States is a party to the 1951 treaty that grants it the right to establish military bases in Greenland with Denmark's consent. The US operates the Pituffik Space Base under the agreement. However, in a New York Times interview published Thursday, Trump said that he wants to own Greenland instead of just exercising a long-standing treaty that gives the United States wide latitude to use Greenland for military bases."
"Vance especially urged Europe to respond to Trump's insistence that the United States needs the island for "missile defense." "So what we're asking our European friends to do is to take the security of that land mass more seriously, because if they're not, the United States is going to have to do something about it," he said."
""I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can't do with, you're talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can't get from just signing a document," Trump told the newspaper."
JD Vance accused Denmark and the rest of Europe of failing to protect Greenland from the intentions of Russia and China and urged leaders to take the US president seriously. He warned that if European partners do not secure the island, the United States may take action, citing missile-defense requirements. President Trump renewed a push to acquire Greenland and said ownership provides advantages beyond treaties or leases. The United States holds a 1951-treaty right to establish military bases and operates the Pituffik Space Base. Danish and Greenland representatives met with White House officials about the issue.
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