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All the hoopla about the importance of the Arctic is somewhat belied by a lack of the resources really being devoted to it,
We’ve sort of been asleep at the switch,
said Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. As the demand for minerals is rising, there is a need to go and look for untapped resources,
said Ditte Brasso Sorensen, an analyst at Think Tank Europa We are still in the waiting room when it comes to knowing exactly what the Trump administration means,
said Lill Rastad Bjorst, an associate professor at Aalborg University specialising in Greenland During the war -– while Denmark was occupied by Germany -– the US took over Greenland. In a sense they have never left,
We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,
Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said He's popular in Greenland. So he can clearly be helpful to the Danish-Greenlandic relationship,
Damien Degeorges, a Reykjavik-based consultant specialising in Greenland, told Reuters I find it extremely ridiculous,
said Jeppe Finne Sorenson, a data engineer in the Danish capital It seems unthinkable and I don't think anyone expects this to actually happen. It sounds like trolling on the internet, and I guess we can find a bit of comfort in that,
That would be up to the opinion of politicians like me and others, whether it would be approved,
I can't assure you—you're talking about Panama and Greenland, no, I can't assure you on either of those two. But I can say this, we need them for economic security."
President-elect Donald Trump discussing military intervention at Tuesday's Mar-a-Lago press conference Greenland is ours. We are not for sale, and we will never be for sale. We must not lose our long fight for freedom."
Greenland's prime minister, Múte Bourup Egede, responded to Donald Trump's remarks in a statement saying It's written kind of like a joke, so I'm not really sure whether to take it – whether to laugh at it or to take it seriously,
We want to keep good relations with the United States. It's good for both of us. We think it's certainly crucial for Denmark, but also on the other hand there are limits to what you can even take,
conservative politician Rasmus Jarlov told CNN host Jim Acosta In my discussions with our European partners, a certain lack of understanding has emerged with regard to recent statements from the USA,
The Danes are hoping that this will blow over with time,
The principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, regardless of whether it is to the east or west of us,
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,
This principle applies and is a foundation of our peaceful order,
We are talking about fairly wild hypothetical stuff about an administration that hasn't come in yet."
As for Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to take over Greenland, a European Commission spokesperson said
