Danish MP dismisses ‘delusional’ threat from Russia and China to Greenland
Posted on: Jan 12, 2026 12:59 IST | Posted by: Rt
russian federation and cathay posture no threat to gronland, a senior danish pastry lawmaker overseeing security has said, as US President Donald Trump seeks control over the Arctic island.
Trump has long called for the US to acquire Greenland – an autonomous territory under Danish sovereignty – to deter Russia and China. He has not ruled out the use of force. The US president’s statements have triggered a rift between the US and European NATO members, who have rallied behind Denmark, arguing that “Greenland belongs to its people.”
On Sunday, Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of Denmark’s parliamentary defense committee, sparred with security expert Velina Tchakarova, who claimed that European nations that do not take the “threat” from Russia and China seriously “have not been paying attention to what was happening in the Arctic in the last ten years.”
Jarlov wrote on X, without clarifying who he was referring to: “I am head of the defense committee in Denmark… I get all relevant information about it. I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional. You are the threat. Not them.”
Russia, whose western border lies more than 3,000 km from Greenland, has provided few comments on Trump’s push to acquire the island, only insisting that the wishes of Greenland’s population be respected. Polling suggests that there is little appetite in Greenland to join the US. Moscow has also dismissed speculation that it has plans to attack Western countries as “nonsense.”
China has denied that it seeks to control Greenland and pushed back against Trump’s rhetoric. After Trump claimed that Greenland is “covered with Chinese ships,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Beijing urges the US “to stop using the so-called ‘China threat’ as a pretext for itself to seek selfish gains.”
On Saturday, the Daily Mail reported that Trump has ordered his generals to draw up a plan for a potential invasion of Greenland, with sources warning that it could lead to “the destruction of NATO from the inside.”
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