Putin: US serious about annexing Greenland
A demonstrator holds a banner depicting a playing card with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, in front of the US embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine March 8, 2025. — Reuters pic
Friday, 28 Mar 2025 8:56 AM MYT
MURMANSK, March 28 — Russia considers US plans to annex Greenland “serious” and worries the West could use the Arctic as a springboard for future conflicts, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
US President Donald Trump has pushed to take control of the autonomous Danish island since taking office in January, saying Washington needs to have it for “international security”.
“It is a deep mistake to think that this is some extravagant talk from the new American administration. It is nothing of the sort,” Putin told an Arctic forum in the northern city of Murmansk.
“We are talking about serious plans on the American side with regard to Greenland. These plans have long-standing historical roots,” he added.
He said that while Russia was not directly involved in the question of Greenland’s ownership, Moscow was concerned that “Nato countries, in general, are increasingly designating the far north as a springboard for possible conflicts”.
Greenland, which is seeking independence from Denmark, is already home to a US military base which US Vice President JD Vance is set to visit on Friday.
The island is strategically located between North America and Europe at a time of rising US, Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic, where sea lanes have opened up because of climate change.
Denmark has rebuffed Trump’s calls to take over the island and says the people of Greenland have shown they do not want to be part of the United States. — AFP
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kt comments:
Canada and Mexico are far more strategically important to the US than Greenland is, so Carrot Clown will annex them as well?
Vlad can have Ukraine,
ReplyDeleteXi go ahead take Taiwan,
Fuck wants Greenland
China and Taiwan are one, as agreed internationally including teh Wanks - no need for Xi to "take"
DeleteThe People's Republic of China DOES NOT, has NEVER, NEVER had control and authority over a single inch of Taiwan.
DeleteXi will have to take Taiwan by blockade or by invasion force.
"The People's Republic of China DOES NOT, has NEVER, NEVER had control and authority over a single inch of Taiwan."
DeleteSo yr mfering game of words!
Then that renegaded Taiwan has NEVER NEVER ever been an independent nation on ALL counts!
So who does it belong too, been for eon as a part of the China sovereignty?
Russia is too big. Only 150 million - half the population of the US but twice the physical size. Much of it rampas from central asian states, Mongolia and 5,000 yo Bullyland. Eg the Russian Tsars annexed approximately 350,000 square miles (910,000 km2) of land from the Qing dynasty, between 1858 and 1860. Treaties of Aigun and Peking - known as the Unequal Treaties. Russia never returned any rampassed land, unlike Macau, HongKong, Dalian etc even tiny by comparison, all returned by Portugal, UK etc. The Century of Humiliation is almost entirely caused by Russia. All other foreign powers have returned colonies to Bullyland.
ReplyDeleteWakakakaka…
Delete"All other foreign powers have returned colonies to Bullyland" except Russia.
The question is WHY & not Russia!
Russia ain't equal to the Tsardom of Moscow when all those Unequal Treaties of Aigun and Peking were signed. Besides Russia ain't demoNcratic nation in the equal of pommie & Portugal which r still single sovereign states. So negotiations with Russia for return of alienated lands r ongoing & difficult due to the changes of political structure of Tsardom of Moscow to SU to current Russia.
BTW what mfering 5,000 yo Bullyland? 5,000 yo Bullyland been rampaged for wealth & lands? Yr mfering definition of Bullyland!