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As U.S. President Donald Trump has his eyes on Greenland, Denmark is requesting Europe for army help on the ground to stop the U.S. chief from buying the land. 

Danish leaders from both the conservative and left-leaning spectrum are against the united statestaking over the natural assets wealthy nation. The US Sun reported that Conservative MP Rasmus Jarlov said Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, ought to settle for allied troops because “the price of military invasion for the Americans would be extremely high.” Left-wing chief Pelle Dragsted said U.S taking over would make this an armed battle, the same outlet reported. Trump ought to never be allowed to “just land a helicopter in Nuuk and raise the US flag”, Dragsted added.

Trump told the New York Times on Thursday that he doesn’t need worldwide law when making an attempt to seize the self-ruling territory.

“Ownership is very important,” Trump told the New York Times reporters as he talked about the landmass of Greenland. The nation is wealthy in natural assets, with metals such as Zinc, lead, copper, and iron and even treasured metals like gold and diamonds.

The administration is prepared to pay between $10,000 to $100,000 per particular person in the Denmark-controlled nation, sources told GWN.

If the administration pays the higher end it might price the U.S $5.7 billion to pay every local in Greenland.

Both the U.S. and Greenland, via Denmark, is an element of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Under the NATO settlement, if one nation, such as Greenland, is attacked, international locations under NATO are obligated to help, presumably with army help.

Trump said he may need to make a “choice” between preserving NATO or annexing Greenland when he spoke to the New York Times.

The administration’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Greenland is a national security precedence for the U.S. Trump told the Times reporters that “psychologically” taking over Greenland is needed for success.

“I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether 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.”

The Times reporters famous that Trump is less in sovereignty and national borders than the function the U.S. performs as the “protector of the West.” U.S Vice President JD Vance threatened European leaders on Thursday to accommodate Trump.

“I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously,” Vance told the press at the White House when requested about Greenland.

Denmark’s protection ministry told the nation’s outlet Berlingske that its troops will “shoot first and ask questions later” if the U.S. will annex Greenland.

This is an element of the nation’s army structure from 1952, which states troopers must fire immediately during an assault, without awaiting orders.

Meanwhile, according to the U.S Sun, the united stateshas over 100 100 army personnel completely stationed at its Pituffik base, in Greenland’s north-western tip. The same outlet reported the ability has been working there since World War II.

One nameless Danish politician told Politico that Greenland can’t defend itself.

“It could be like five helicopters … he wouldn’t need a lot of troops, they said. ““There would be nothing they [Greenlanders] could do.”