Carla Sands, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark during the first Trump administration, said the U.S. acquisition of Greenland would be a vital national security move for America and its allies.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
President-elect Donald Trump previously said that the U.S. “ownership and control” of Greenland is “an absolute necessity” for “purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World.”
Sands (pictured above), who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark from 2017-2021, agrees with Trump, explaining how the lack of an American presence in the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom) gap gives adversaries including Russia and China an upper hand in the region.