Trump eyes fresh Greenland takeover bid with secret talks

Trump, as he has shown most recently in the Middle East, will in a sense do whatever he wants,” Dr Neil Melvin, international security director at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), told The i Paper. “It won’t necessarily be that these security discussions will have much impact on his ultimate approach to Greenland, because for him, he’s made a political commitment to bringing Greenland into some kind of closer relationship to the US as part of his political legacy – he’s been clear about this on many occasions.” Melvin added: “Trump is quite idiosyncratic. I think he’s going to return to his political agenda at some point and is likely to pose similar demands that we’ve seen in the past about increased US access, even infringing on current sovereignty arrangements around Greenland. “It’s going to be difficult for the Europeans to oppose that, even after some of the setbacks that the US is experiencing in the Middle East.”