A foreign country took military action after Donald Trump made this bold promise

Donald Trump is already making waves and he hasn’t taken office. 

The end of weak leadership in the White House is ruffling feathers. 

And a foreign country took military action after Donald Trump made this bold promise. 

Denmark sends military forces to Greenland after Donald Trump’s comments 

President-elect Donald Trump has had his eye on buying Greenland from Denmark since his first term in office. 

The world’s largest island sits in a strategic location between the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. 

Greenland has an abundance of natural resources, including rare earth minerals, oil, and natural gas. 

Trump said on his Truth Social platform that the United States needed to acquire Greenland for national security reasons. 

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump wrote. 

Greenland is a self-autonomous region of Denmark with a population of 57,000 people. 

Danish politicians and Greenland’s Prime Minister have stated that the island isn’t for sale. 

Trump’s comments spurred the Danish to make a new investment in Greenland’s security. 

Danish Minister of Defense Troels Lund Poulsen told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that $1.5 billion would be spent bolstering Greenland’s defense including two sled dog teams. 

“It is ironic that it coincides with the announcement from the United States,” Poulsen said. “For many years we have not invested enough in the Arctic, now we are planning a stronger presence.”

The new spending will go toward two new patrol boats, drones, two sled dog teams, and upgrading Greenland’s airports to handle Danish Air Force fighter jets. 

Danish Royal Navy sled dog teams are used to patrol the island’s frozen tundra. 

Poulsen said that Denmark was willing to partner with the United States on upgrading the security of Greenland. 

Trump official tells Denmark to get real about Greenland’s security

Former Trump National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien warned that Greenland needed more than sled dog teams, during an appearance on Fox News.

“The Danes need to put the frigate that’s necessary there, they can put the air wings, they can put the missiles in Greenland, and they can put the infantry there that they need to defend [it],” O’Brien said. 

O’Brien noted that China and Russia are increasingly interested in the Arctic because of the untapped natural resources. 

“Just like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are doing in Eastern Europe. Or they can pay us to do it,” O’Brien said about upgrading Greenland’s security.  “If they don’t want to do either of those things, they can let us buy Greenland, and Greenland can become part of Alaska. The native people of Greenland are very closely related to the people of Alaska.”

He pointed out that the United States can’t defend Greenland for “nothing.” 

“Greenland is a highway from the Arctic all the way to North America to the United States,” O’Brien explained. “It’s strategically very important to the Arctic, which is going to be the critical battleground of the future. The Russians and Chinese are all over the Arctic.”

The United States buying Greenland would be the biggest acquisition by a President in more than a century.