In an interview with CNN, Miller is pressed on whether the United States, in light of its actions in Venezuela this weekend, could act militarily to take control of Greenland.
"There is no reason to even think about or talk about this in the context of a military operation. No one is going to fight militarily against the United States over the future of Greenland," Miller says.
That the US “needs” the world’s largest island, an autonomous part of Denmark with extensive self-government, has been a mantra for US President Donald Trump since his first term in office. Trump now tells NBC News that the US needs Greenland “right away” and that he is very serious about the issue, but that the US has no timeline for taking action.
Trump advisor Stephen Miller emphasizes that it is the government's formal position that the United States "should be the country that owns Greenland."
Questioning Denmark
It would not be a military action against Greenland, which has a population of 30,000. The real question is, by what right does Denmark exercise control over Greenland? What is the basis for their territorial claim?
Greenland has approximately 56,000 inhabitants.
The United States, the deputy chief of staff tells CNN, is NATO's center of power.
For the United States to be able to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO, Greenland should of course be part of the United States.
"Soon"
Stephen Miller's wife Katie Miller, also a former spokesperson for the US government, posted a picture of Greenland this weekend where the island is draped in the American flag.
"Soon," Miller wrote on X.
Denmark, a NATO country, through Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, has once again dismissed the idea and urged the US to stop threatening a historically close ally.
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has also reacted sharply.
"No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies about annexation," he wrote on social media this weekend.
