US military base in Greenland mapped as Trump | Political News

President Donald Trump and his group are discussing choices to purchase Greenland and probably make the most of the U.S. military in furtherance of the aim, which is “always an option,” the White House said on Tuesday, according to GWN. 

“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region. The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the commander-in-chief’s disposal,” the White House said in a assertion in response to queries from GWN.

Vice President JD Vance is predicted to embark on a journey to Greenland this week, as President Trump has repeatedly signaled in his second time period that he’s in buying Greenland or in any other case buying the ice-covered territory, which is partially managed by Denmark.

The U.S. already has a presence in Greenland, in the shape of Pituffik Space Base, an American military set up that Vance will go to on his journey. The distant base is located between the U.S. and Russia and is seen as a key outpost in U.S. military defenses.

“Right now … this base is the most important geographic location the United States has” in case of an assault from the middle sector of the Arctic, says Troy Bouffard, a professor of Arctic security at the University of Alaska Fairbanks told NPR.

The base is situated on the northwestern coast of Greenland, just across the Baffin Bay from Nunavut, Canada. In 1951, the U.S. and Denmark secretly started setting up the military set up so the U.S. might stage long-range bombers nearer to China and what was then the Soviet Union. It continues to operate to date through mutual protection agreements between the U.S. and Denmark.

It was beforehand identified as Thule Air Base and was renamed in 2023 to “recognize Greenlandic cultural heritage and better reflect its role in the U.S. Space Force,” the military said in a press release. The base is critical to U.S. military capabilities in large half because it’s situated immediately between the northern U.S. and northern Russia, according to Bouffard and other national security consultants, as reported by NPR.

GWN’ report about the U.S. buying Greenland comes after one of Trump’s main aides urged that the U.S. could also be keen to seize control of the Arctic territory by drive, prompting European leaders to rally dramatically in assist of Denmark and Greenland.

U.Okay. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the French President Emmanuel Macron, and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of the dominion of Denmark, “belongs to its people”, in a uncommon European rebuke to the White House.

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“It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland,” the three leaders said in a assertion on Tuesday made collectively with the prime ministers of Denmark, Italy, Poland, and Spain.

Starmer repeated British assist for Denmark at a press convention in Paris, where Trump’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had been current. “I’ve been very clear as to what my position, the position of the U.K. government, is,” Starmer said.