“For reasons of National Security and Freedom throughout the world, the United States of America considers that property and the control of Greenland are an absolute necessity,” he wrote trump In an announcement on Sunday, in which he named his ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery.
The president-elect has been expressing, since his first term, the desire to be able to buy Greenland from Denmark. His intentions were intensified and awakened after the announcement that USA could take back the control of the Panama Canal, If something is not done to alleviate the high shipping costs required to use the waterway that connects the oceans Peaceful and Atlantic.
trump He also suggested several times that Canada becomes the state number 51 of the United States and referred to the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeauas “governor” of the “Great State of Canada“.
What was Greenland’s response?
Greenland is the largest island in the worldwith 2,166 million km2, and is located between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is covered in a 80% for a layer of ice and houses a large American military base. In 1979 obtained self-government Denmark and Múte Bourup Egede, its head of government, stressed that Trump’s calls on the issue are equally insignificant than those of his first term.
“Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale“, said Egede in a statement, where he added that “we must not lose our years-long fight for freedom“.
After the rejection of buy Greenland in 2019Trump continued to insist that the United States is sorry “cheated” in the Panama Canal and that urgent measures must be taken: “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of Americain its entirety, quickly and without questions”.
On the other hand, the president of Panama, José Raúl Mulinoresponded in a video that every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and that will continue to be so; Trump doubled down and responded on social media: “We’ll see!”
The dispute over the Panama Canal
USA built the canal in the early 1900s, but gave up the control to Panama on December 31, 1999under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump recently posted an image of an American flag planted in the canal area along with the phrase: “Welcome to the United States Channel!“.
He channel depends on reservoirs that were affected by the droughts of 2023, which forced substantially reduce the number of daily spaces for boats that circulated through those spaces. Faced with this panorama, the administrators rates increased that carriers must pay to reserve the limited spaces available to use the canal.
The conflicts regarding Greenland and Panama continued after trump would publish that “the Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State“, with an image of himself on top of a mountain, observing the territory around him.
Source: Ambito
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