Greenlanders breathing a 'sigh of relief' as Donald Trump strikes 'framework agreement' with Nato

On Wednesday evening, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte and Mr Trump shook hands on the major proposal after his keynote speech to the World Economic Forum, where he declared he would "not use force" to obtain Greenland.

Following the agreement, Mr Trump said the framework will prove to be a "great solution for the United States of America, and all Nato nations".

Detailing the agreement, Steven told GB News: "Donald Trump has reached an agreement with Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of Nato. And this basically says that the US will have sovereignty over parts of Greenland, akin to a deal where Britain has sovereignty over parts of Cyprus, where we have military bases.

"It could also open up Greenland to mineral mining for the United States, and I think people here in the capital of Greenland are very relieved at this."

Revealing the reaction of Greenland residents, he added: "They were really preparing for war. There was a press conference yesterday with some of the Greenlandic ministers, and they were telling people to prepare for an emergency, to have five days worth of supplies, of food and water and gas and things like that, in case there really was something that was about to happen with the United States.

"I think people were terrified of a potential invasion. Donald Trump was talking about taking over the country, and there's a big sense of relief here now that that is over, the threat of tariffs, the threats of military invasion seem to have passed, and Donald Trump has come to this agreement."

Delivering his verdict on the agreement, Steven said: "I think it's a historic agreement as well that really goes in with his new foreign policy, so-called the Donroe Doctrine, named after the Monroe Doctrine, focusing on the Western Hemisphere.

"And I think Donald Trump and his allies will see this as a great deal, where the United States have finally secured some more rights over the military bases and sort of being able to act freely across Greenland, which is so important strategically when it comes to Russia, when it comes to China, when it comes to the Arctic, when it comes to rare earth minerals."

He continued: "Greenland is a very important place, and I think the United States have been looking at Greenland, making sure that they have the proper sovereignty over it so that China and Russia can't come in and buy parts of the land or invest and do as China have tried to do all across the world.

"Compete with the United States, set up their own ports, set up their own airports, and so on. So I think the United States and Donald Trump see this as a great success."

Noting the reaction from European nations to Mr Trump dropping his tariff threat, Steven explained: "Obviously, European allies and European leaders are very relieved that these tariffs are not going to happen anymore in February, and relieved that there's some kind of deal.

"Now, the leader of Denmark, the Prime Minister, has said that she hasn't endorsed the deal yet, and she has maintained that the sovereignty of Greenland, which is a Danish territory and will not be impinged by this deal.

"They've been very, very insistent, Denmark, that there can be no negotiations around the sovereignty and only negotiations around the politics and the geography of Greenland."

He added: "It doesn't appear that Denmark has been involved in these talks directly, despite the fact that Greenland is actually a territory of Denmark and has been for quite some time now.

"The US military has also had a sort of basis here since, I think, the 1950s, and they've been operating here even since the Second World War. So it goes back a long, long way."

Noting the strategic benefits of the US having more control over Greenland, he concluded: "What the United States are really worried about is not only Chinese control over rare earth materials, but also China and Russia's impeachment on the Arctic Circle and on Arctic trade routes.

"And they want to make sure that Greenland is secure in the United States camp, because they say the argument is from the United States, that Denmark and the European countries, they don't have the resources to protect Greenland, to properly invest in Greenland, to take over those, for example, the mineral mines.

"Denmark hasn't got the kind of capacity to do that or the military to do that, so the United States thinks that it's in their strategic interest to do that instead of the Danish and instead of Nato."

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