On Wednesday, France cautioned President-elect Donald Trump against making threats regarding the European Union’s “sovereign borders,” following his refusal to dismiss the option of using military force to acquire Greenland.
“The EU will not permit any other countries around the globe—regardless of their identity—to assault its sovereign borders,” stated French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot during an interview on France Inter, a public radio station. Barrot expressed that while he does not anticipate an invasion of the Danish territory by Trump, it is evident that the world is seeing a revival of the “law of the strongest.”
Leaders from Greenland and Denmark have persistently affirmed that the autonomous region— which Trump has audaciously suggested should be taken over by the U.S. for the sake of its “economic security”—is not available for acquisition and is not interested in joining the union.
When asked at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday whether he would promise not to resort to military action to claim Greenland or the Panama Canal, Trump responded: “No, I can’t guarantee you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security.”
Furthermore, Trump has been particularly fixated on the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state— to which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replied on Tuesday that there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” of that occurring.
