Finland's president says 'it's not over yet' after Greenland de-escalation [View all]
Source: The Hill
01/21/26 6:28 PM ET
Finnish President Alexander Stubb warned Wednesday that “it’s not over yet” after President Trump de-escalated his aggressive stance on possibly acquiring Greenland for the U.S. by force.
“I took two positive takeaways from this speech,” Stubb said on “Amanpour & Co” with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “One was he said there will be no military intervention, and the second one is he wants to improve our Arctic security for national and ‘international’ reasons. So, I think we’ve now de-escalated but, obviously, it’s not over yet.”
Stubb said Europe faced three scenarios with the U.S. plans over acquiring Greenland. He called these scenarios the “good, bad and ugly.” “And the good would be to find an off-ramp and create a process to improve Arctic security through NATO,” he told Amanpour. “The bad one would be to have a tariff war continued, and the ugly one would have been military intervention.”
Trump said he reached the framework of a deal with NATO about Greenland’s future and chose not to impose 10 percent tariffs on Denmark and other European countries. The president has frequently said the U.S. needs Greenland for national security reasons.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5699950-greenland-nato-trump-stubb/
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