Donald Trump’s renewed threat to seize Greenland by force marks a chilling break with international law and NATO solidarity, says Brendan O'Hara, the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Greenland.

Maya Angelou, the American poet and civil rights activist, famously said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Rarely has that observation been more relevant or appropriate than today, as President Trump’s plans to seize, by military force if necessary, the island of Greenland, that autonomous island territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, which just happens to be one of America’s closest, longstanding NATO allies, are now a startling reality.

Trump initially raised the idea back in 2017 but, on being unceremoniously rebuffed by both Greenland and Denmark, we had dared to hope that this issue, which had raised its head periodically over the previous century and a half, had gone back to sleep again. If only!

Fast-forward nine years and a re-elected Trump, newly emboldened by his successful, if highly illegal, attack on Venezuela, turned the full force of his MAGA movement on Greenland, with Steven Miller, President Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, telling CNN earlier this week that “The United States should have Greenland as part of the United States.”

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press Secretary, upped the ante the following day, saying, “and of course, utilising the US military is always an option for the Commander in Chief.”

Those co-ordinated comments merely echoed that of their boss, who had previously declared of Greenland, “One way or another, we’re going to get it.”

Of course, Trump is not the first US president to want to buy or annex........

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