President Donald Trump is threatening Greenland again. "REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" he wrote in a social media rant about European allies' failure to join his war on Iran. Earlier this year, Trump had made such intense threats to annex the island that Denmark, its owner, deployed troops with live ammunition, emergency blood supplies, and orders to blow up the airports in case of a U.S. invasion.
"It is our task to ensure that [Trump's ambitions] are not realized," Denmark's Acting Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told Danish television in response to a question about Greenland. Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen warned about the threat to "international law" and "the world community." Naaja H. Nathanielsen, a member of Danish parliament for Greenland, denounced the disrespect to Greenlanders' national pride.
