Francesca Chambers

Well, recall that in his first term, President Donald Trump also talked about his desire for the United States to acquire Greenland.

So this is something that he has been speaking about for quite a long time.

Then once he came back into office last year at the beginning of 2025, he re-raised this issue.

As far as strategic value goes, I mean, Greenland is situated in the Arctic between the United States as well as Denmark and Russia.

So it sits at a point where, as the president has argued, that if there were some sort of a conflict between the United States and its NATO allies against Russia or China, there would be a lot of strategic value there.

in having military bases on Greenland, where, by the way, the United States already has a military base and where NATO already operates in conjunction with Denmark.

But President Trump, his thinking on this has been if there was any other future conflict that currently he says Denmark doesn't have enough of a military presence on the island.

And he's argued that going back to World War II, when the original agreement between the United States and Denmark and its NATO allies came into full force, that Denmark has never had enough of a military presence there.

And that's actually why the United States had to come to Greenland's aid at that time.

So he sees this as a decades-long argument that he's now brought to the forefront with tensions on the rise globally.

I think it's really important that we refer to it as a framework right now because we don't know all of the details.

And it's not...

white to a deal yet.

In fact, President Trump told reporters on his way back from Davos, Switzerland, where he spoke at the International Economic Forum that's held there annually, that this is something that he expects to be worked out in the next two weeks.

So we know that there have been conversations about this.

We know that President Trump says that he will have total access, the US will have total access

access to Greenland is part of this framework.

It would somehow involve potentially more U.S.

military bases on the island, but we don't know all the details of this.

One thing that we also do know is that