Donald Trump has from the White House said he wants to buy Greenland from Denmark, or even take control of the island by military means.
Regardless of the reality, the outbursts have again put focus on the mineral-rich island as geopolitically strategically important.
But it's not primarily an American threat of a military intervention to secure the country's influence that has prompted General Robert Brieger, head of the EU's military committee (EUMC), to react.
With increasing melting of the ice cap due to climate change, a certain potential for tensions with Russia and possibly China is also created, he says to German Welt am Sonntag, as Reuters refers.
As I see it, it would be completely logical not only to have American forces stationed on Greenland, as they have had for a long time, but also to consider stationing EU soldiers there in the future.
He points out that a decision to send an EU force would require a political decision, since the union does not have a common military.
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