Trump tightens the screws on Greenland
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Less than 3 days after kidnapping the Venezuelan leader, Trump has doubled down on his ambitions to make Greenland the 51st state - despite warnings that coming for the Danish territory would be the end of NATO.
With one of Trump's top aides, Stephen Miller, declaring "nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland" is there anything that world leaders can do to stop Trump now?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | The real question is, by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? |
| 0:15.6 | What is the basis of their territorial claim? |
| 0:18.0 | What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark? |
| 0:21.2 | The United States is the power of NATO. For the United States to secure the Arctic region |
| 0:28.6 | to protect and defend NATO and NATO interests, obviously Greenland should be part of the United States. |
| 0:33.6 | That is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's |
| 0:39.8 | most close, most trusted advisors, refusing to rule out the use of military force against Greenland, |
| 0:48.7 | therefore refusing to rule out the use of military force against a sovereign ally, Denmark, and therefore, by extension, refusing to rule out the use of military force against a sovereign ally, Denmark, and therefore, |
| 0:56.1 | by extension, refusing to rule out the complete implosion of the NATO alliance. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes, if people have been sleeping uneasily since Nicolas Maduro was lifted and kidnapped |
| 1:08.4 | in Venezuela, they're not going to sleep any better listening to |
| 1:12.9 | Donald Trump's right-hand man. And so it comes to pass that six European nations, |
| 1:19.3 | including the UK, as well as France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Denmark, have had |
| 1:25.6 | to issue a joint statement saying, America, it's none of your business. |
| 1:32.7 | Is Donald Trump going to take a blind bit of notice? |
| 1:36.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:43.0 | The news Agents. |
| 1:44.8 | It's John. |
| 1:45.4 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:46.3 | And that clip that you heard of Stephen Miller, and it's hard to exaggerate his importance to the Trump operation. |
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