By: Will Thibeau

At the NATO summit this week in Ankara, Turkey, President Trump revived his demand that Greenland “be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.”

He warned that Washington could withdraw its forces from Europe because of the continent’s resistance. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen replied that Denmark was ready to defend “every inch” of its territory and that the island was not for sale.

The exchange read as another rupture in the alliance. Beneath the heat sat a question no one in Europe had answered.

How would Europe defend Greenland without the United States? That no one has answered this matters, because NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte then said Mr. Trump “absolutely has a point” on keeping China and Russia out of the Arctic.

[[…Read more at: The Washington Times…]]