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‘We Feel Betrayed’: Greenland Minister Condemns Donald Trump Over Invasion Threat

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A member of Greenland’s government says they feel “betrayed” by Donald Trump’s threat to take over the Arctic island.

The US president has said he plans to seize Greenland “one way or the other” and has refused to rule out sending in American troops.

But speaking at Westminster following talks with MPs, Naaja Nathanielsen said the island – which is part of the kingdom of Denmark – has no interest in becoming American.

Nathanielsen, who is Greenland’s minister for business, mineral resources, energy, justice and gender equality, said: “If you ask the people of Greenland, people are concerned about the messages from the US about annexing or buying Greenland.

“People are reporting difficulties to sleep. This is fuelling the discussions around the households. We are trying to keep calm and work our way through it.”

She added: “We have no intention of becoming American. We have worked towards more collaboration with the Americans, but we are quite happy being part of the kingdom of Denmark.

“We feel betrayed. We feel the rhetoric is offensive and bewildering. We have done nothing but support the US.

“We are allies of allies of the US and are bewildered that we have to discuss possible selling of annexing of Greenland. This is not something we deserve. We have been good partners.”

Trump has said that America needs to “own” Greenland to stop China and Russia from trying to take it over.

But Nathanielsen said Greenland wanted a “peaceful solution” to the crisis, and warned that the whole world would be thrown into crisis if Trump orders troops to invade the Arctic island.

She said: “If that scenario was to happen, everybody in your countries will have a focus on what the new world order is about. We will be in a new situation.

“We would all be under attack. It would be a breakdown of international law and existing treaties, and that would be a bad outcome for all of us. I do hope we will not get to that situation.”

Nathanielsen also insisted that Greenland is facing no “imminent threat” from Russia or China, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary.

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Labour MP Tells Starmer To Scrap Jury Reforms Or Face A By-Election

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A Labour MP has told Keir Starmer to scrap his planned jury reforms – or he will trigger a by-election.

The government intends to limit jury trials in England and Wales, abolishing them altogether for non-serious offences – those with a likely prison sentences of three years of less – in a bid to clear the court backlog.

But Karl Turner, the former shadow solicitor general, has told The Sunday Times he is “ashamed” of the prime minister and justice secretary David Lammy for going ahead with the plans.

The MP for Kingston upon Hull East urged the government to “stop these ludicrous proposals and get on with the hard job of sorting out the criminal justice system”.

He voted for a Tory motion to force a vote among MPs on the government’s justice reforms this week, breaking the party whip as he did so.

That marked the first time Turner had voted against his own party since securing a seat in 2010.

While around 40 Labour MPs previously warned the prime minister they are not prepared to support the plans, Turner was the only one to oppose the government and back a Tory motion.

But he told The Sunday Times he is “not fearful of having the whip removed” as a result, and would even consider standing down as an MP.

He currently holds his seat with a majority of 3,920 – Reform came in second place.

Despite the threat, Turner said he does not believe he will end up triggering a by-election, noting Labour MPs are “seething” over the reforms.

He suggested the backbenchers will be able to defeat the government’s motion if it “daft enough” to bring it forward.

Turner also revealed that the justice reforms “really matter” to him because he was wrongly accused of a crime “many years ago” – leading him to pursue his own career in law before becoming an MP.

The Ministry of Justice told the newspaper: “Victims are facing an unacceptably long wait for justice after years of delays in our courts. This government is determined to change that.

“That is why we are combining bold reforms, record levels of investment and action to tackle inefficiencies across the system — so victims and survivors see their cases heard sooner and get the justice they deserve.

“Taken together, these measures will ensure the most serious cases are prioritised and continue to be heard by a jury, while reducing unnecessary delays that leave victims waiting for far too long.”

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Trump Thinks US Aggression Can Overpower Everything. No One Seems Willing To Prove Him Wrong.

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Donald Trump outdid himself this week.

After initiating military strikes against Venezuela and capturing its president Nicolas Maduro, he declared he would “run” the country – and send in America’s oil companies.

While there were some murmurings of dissent over this aggression, his western allies effectively looked the other way, shirking questions over whether this was a breach of international law.

But Trump wasn’t finished. He then began to renew his threats against Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Iran – as well as the Danish territory of Greenland.

Attacking the latter would effectively tear the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) apart, considering both the US and Denmark are members.

He told the New York Times he could be left with a “choice” between sticking with Nato or grabbing Greenland.

As the White House’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said this week: “Nobody is going to fight the US militarily over the future of Greenland.”

European leaders did pipe up a little in defence the Arctic island, writing a joint statement reminding the US that its future can be decided only by Greenland and Denmark.

But evidently, that’s not enough. The president does not care. He has pressed on, insisting the US “needs” the territory.

The 80-year pact among western leaders after World War 2 to commit to a shared idea of defence, democracy and law has gone out the window.

And European leaders fear the repercussions that could follow if they challenge the most powerful man in the world for upending the rules-based order.

Does this mean it is now Trump’s world, and we’re just living in it?

Associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme. Keir Giles told HuffPost UK that at the moment it certainly looked like it – “who is going to stop him?”

He pointed out that the States is widely seen as the main enforcer of international law, and so America has been able to pick and choose which elements it wants to uphold – or now let it collapse altogether.

He did suggest Europe might be less powerful than it thinks – but that the continent should have a strategy that goes beyond “pandering” to the White House.

Evidently, the softly-softly approach is barely registering with Trump, as seen from the UK prime minister’s interactions with him this week.

Keir Starmer has tried to become a Trump whisperer over the last 18 months, but he could not even get the US president on the phone in the immediate aftermath of his military strikes on Venezuela.

It seemed that it was only after the UK and France promised to send their troops to Ukraine in the even of a peace deal and Britain helped the US seize a Russian tanker linked to Venezuelan oil in the North Atlantic that Trump picked up the phone on Wednesday.

And, judging by the short readout from No.10, Starmer made no progress on persuading Trump to climbdown on his Greenland ambitions.

Surprisingly, they had a second conversation on Thursday.

“The leaders discussed Euro-Atlantic security and agreed on the need to deter an increasingly aggressive Russia in the High North,” according to Downing Street. “European allies had stepped up in recent months to defend Euro-Atlantic interests, but more could be done to protect the area, the prime minister said.”

Trump’s comments’s response to those words from Starmer were notably absent.

President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer announce an agreement between the two countries during a joint press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025.
President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announce an agreement between the two countries during a joint press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025.

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So there are growing calls for European leaders to grow a backbone, especially if Trump moves to annex Greenland.

As EU correspondent Ole Ryborg wrote for Danish media outlet, DR: “What the Europeans have not tried yet is to act against the US. The political will has not been there.”

He suggested if Europe banded together against the US, it could use its “large arsenal of very powerful weapons” to knock Trump off course.

The specialist noted how the continent could start an economic conflict, too, by halting the export of the specific technology that the US buys in Europe, which could block the entire US AI sector.

The EU could stop using American cryptocurrency, impose personal sanctions on Americans or implement an entry ban on US politicians.

The bloc could consider freezeing financial assets, too, limiting the new purchase of American government bonds, restricting US companies and services and disrupting the US-EU medicine trade.

“Putin has been emboldened by president Trump’s recent aggressive posturing”

– CEO of Hope for Ukraine and humanitarian expert, Yuriy Boyechko

Even closing US military bases in Europe would send a statement to the White House.

It’s certainly in Europe’s interests to stop Trump sooner rather than later – and not just because of Greenland.

That’s because Trump’s moves appear to have given Russia a boost.

On Thursday, Russia targeted western Ukraine, Lviv, with an intermediate range ballistic missile which travelled approximately 1,622km to its target.

The CEO of Hope for Ukraine and humanitarian expert, Yuriy Boyechko, told HuffPost UK this “escalation appears fueled by a perception of Western disunity”.

He added: “Specifically, Putin has been emboldened by president Trump’s recent aggressive posturing, including his dismissal of Nato’s traditional role and his alarming renewed threats to use military force to acquire Greenland.

“By eyeing the territory of a Nato ally while signaling that the US commitment to the alliance is fluid, the current administration has created a vacuum that the Kremlin is eager to fill, actively testing the threshold of global stability in a world where the old rules no longer seem to apply.”

Giles also noted that Europe needs to get its act together and appreciate the impact of Trump’s moves, dispelling the “assumption that wars only happen to other people”.

He called out Britain in particular, claiming “the UK government is doggedly resisting taking an interest in national defence” while the very real threat of Russian war looms.

While Vladimir Putin’s nose was put out of joint this week after Trump seized part of his shadow fleet, Giles said the Russian president probably “doesn’t want to interrupt his enemy while he is making a mistake” and rearranging the world order to Russia’s liking – especially when it jeopardises Nato.

Russia is already testing the so-called grey zone between war and peace, too.

The Daily Mail reported this week that Russia could cripple Britain by cutting just 60 undersea cables carrying 99% of all UK data, while its shadow fleet has been accused of trying to sabotage telecommunication cables.

Allies on the continent evidently can no longer ignore Trump’s posturing – but it remains to be seen whether any of them will put their heads above the parapet and risk the Republican’s wrath.

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Farage Accused Of ‘Wanting To Bring Trump’s Death Squads’ To UK

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Nigel Farage has been accused of wanting to bring Donald Trump’s “death squads” to the UK amid Reform’s plans to crack down on immigration.

The US president is facing heightened backlash right now after an agent representing America’s ICE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.

Trump claimed the deceased woman was “driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer”, before the official shot her in self-defence.

But footage of the shooting suggests the woman tried to back up and drive away when agents told her to “get out of the fucking car”.

The incident has sparked intense outrage in the States and a wider debate about ICE amid Trump’s push to cut back on immigration.

Reform’s closeness with the current US administration means this conversation has leapt across the Atlantic.

As Green Party leader Zack Polanski pointed out, Farage has long suggested he would like to reduce immigration in the UK.

He said: “Farage wants to bring Trump’s death squads to the streets of Britain.

“Together, we will stop him.”

He pointed to a Reform policy document from August which promises to create an “enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre”.

Polanski also noted that the Conservative Party previously pledged to introduce a £1.6 billion ICE-style removal force.

He wrote in a later post: “Trump started it.

“Reform and Tories are at it too. And Labour already heading in that direction. All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.”

His concerns were echoed by other users on X, too…

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Reform most certainly want an ICE style immigration system in the UK too.
We must never allow Farage anywhere near power. https://t.co/2CKkvQ9IBi

— Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) January 8, 2026

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Reform most certainly want an ICE style immigration system in the UK too.
We must never allow Farage anywhere near power. https://t.co/2CKkvQ9IBi

— Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) January 8, 2026

Reform UK was approached for a comment to Polanski’s remarks.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Farage was asked what he thought of Polanski.

He said: “This Polanski bloke has appeared out of nowhere… clearly a lunatic.”

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