Retired United States Army general Brian McCaffrey on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Greenland, urging Republican leaders in Congress to act in response to the president’s musings.
Trump on Saturday told NBC News he’s believes the U.S. will “get Greenland ... 100 percent.”
Trump also refused to rule out annexing the self-governing Danish territory.
”I don't take anything off the table," Trump told NBC News.
As Newsweek notes, Trump’s talk about taking Greenland has led to “[strained] relations between the U.S. and [North Atlantic Trade Organization] NATO ally Denmark.”
“The inhospitable Arctic is being reshaped by climate change, new trade routes and fresh military footprints from Russia and China,” Newsweek reports.
McCaffrey on Sunday called the president’s NBC News interview “Mussolini talk,” referring to former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
"Where are the Republicans leaders in Congress and [the] states,” McCaffrey wondered.
As Newsweek reports, Trump's "remarks came a day after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland in a scaled-back visit with his wife, Usha Vance, touring the U.S.'s Pituffik Space Base in the northwest of the island, hundreds of miles from Greenland's capital, Nuuk."
Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy, Jim Townsend, last week told Newsweek NATO "would never recover" from a U.S. military operation in Greenland.
"It would be just a horrendous catastrophe for the trans-Atlantic relationship, or NATO or U.S. relations with Europe and the rest of the world," Townsend said.
"It would hand a huge victory to Russia and to China,” the former official added.
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