OPINION:
President Trump has said acquiring Greenland is a “national security” priority (“Trump calls anything less than Greenland ownership ‘unacceptable,’” Web, Jan. 14).
A 2025 survey commissioned by the Danish paper Berlingske showed that only 6% of Greenlanders are in favor of becoming part of the U.S., while 85% do not want to join.
Leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain have expressed support for Denmark-controlled Greenland and condemned Mr. Trump’s threats to take Greenland, by force if he deems it necessary.
If Mr. Trump attacks Greenland, he will be violating international laws, including NATO’s Article 5. At the Nuremberg trials, the Allies prosecuted Axis leaders for “crimes against peace.” They declared an unprovoked attack on another country the supreme international crime.
The Trump administration’s comments on acquiring Greenland sound similar to those of Adolf Hitler before World War II. In 1938, Hitler — whom former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly said Mr. Trump praised on multiple occasions — claimed that seizing Austria and Czechoslovakia were necessary to unite the German people and secure Germany’s borders.
Unlike Hitler, who was not stopped from illegally seizing Austria and Czechoslovakia, Mr. Trump must be condemned and pressured from illegally seizing Greenland.
CHRISTIAN GATSBY
Hoover, Alabama
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