onald Trump sees taking over Greenland as an important “strategic obxtive” – and it is one he is quietly working towards as negotiations stall in the Iran war, experts say.
The US is engaged in hushed talks with Denmark over extending America’s military capabilities in the Arctic, as Trump seeks to “change the conversation” and score a success ahead of November’s mid-term elections.
Trump last week described the Arctic island nation in a social media post as a “BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE”, prompting Greenland’s Prime Minister ​Jens-Frederik Nielsen to say that he “cannot see that [Trump’s] desire to either take over or control ​Greenland has been taken off the table”.
It came after reports that the US was negotiating with Denmark for access to three additional military bases in Greenland, marking the first US military expansion in the semi-autonomous territory in decades.

唐纳德·特朗普将接管格陵兰视为一个重要的“战略目标”——而专家称,在伊朗战争谈判陷入停滞之际,这一目标正被他悄然推进。
随着特朗普试图“改变话题”,并在11月的中期选举前取得一项成果,美国正与丹麦就扩大其在北极地区的军事能力进行低调谈判。
特朗普上周在一则社交媒体帖子中将这个北极岛屿国家形容为“一块巨大、管理不善的大冰块”,这促使格陵兰总理延斯-弗雷德里克·尼尔森表示,他“看不出(特朗普)想要接管或控制格陵兰的意图已经被排除”。
此前有报道称,美国正在与丹麦谈判,希望获得在格陵兰另外三个军事基地的使用权,这将标志着数十年来美国在这一半自治领土上的首次军事扩张。