Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said he does not believe the United States, under President-elect Donald Trump, will use force to take Greenland.
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“I don’t believe in military action, for example, in Greenland,” Orpo told broadcaster Yle’s morning program, commenting on the possible use of force by the US to take the island.
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Orpo also doesn’t think Greenland will fall under U.S. control one way or another during Trump’s presidency.
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Trump said on January 7 that Greenland should become part of the United States and emphasized its strategic importance for national security and the defense of the “free world,” including from China and Russia. Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede, for his part, said that the island is not for sale and will never be sold. At the same time, Trump refused to promise not to use military force to establish control over Greenland.
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At the end of 2024, Trump called it an “absolute necessity” for the United States to own Greenland, as he commented on his decision to appoint former US Ambassador to Sweden and entrepreneur Ken Howery as the new American ambassador to Denmark.
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Greenland was a colony of Denmark until 1953. It remains part of the kingdom, but in 2009 it received autonomy with the possibility of self-government and independent choice in internal politics. In 2019, a series of publications appeared in the media that Trump was considering the possibility of purchasing Greenland.
