European NATO leaders have issued a joint statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” and it is for the Arctic island and Denmark only to decide on its future, after President Donald Trump’s administration reiterated its wish to take control of it.
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
Defending a country’s territorial integrity is not defiant; if anything, the country threatening that integrity is the one acting in a reckless, defiant, and dangerous manner.
Defiant in the face of a would-be oppressor
Yeah that choice of words didn’t sit right with me either.