ANKARA, Turkey — European leaders on Wednesday had a firm warning for President Donald Trump as he revived his crusade to seize Greenland: Leave the Danish territory alone.
“We are ready to defend every inch of NATO, including our own territory,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters as she arrived at a gathering of the alliance leaders in Ankara. “One of the reasons why we built NATO many, many years ago is if anything happens to one of us then everybody should stand up for each other.”
The remarks came after Trump on Tuesday said that “Greenland … should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark” at the outset of NATO’s annual summit in Turkey.
“I’m not happy with NATO because of what they did with Greenland,” he added Wednesday.
