Putin: Trump is serious about Greenland

Russian Preside Vladimir Putin said at a public meeting of the Arctic Dialogue on Wednesday evening: “The role and importance of the Arctic for the whole world is increasing, but geopolitical competition is also iensifying. Russia supports equal cooperation in the Arctic region. ”

Describing Russia as the biggest power of the Arctic, he announced that Moscow is ready to cooperate with all couries responsible for the developme of the region.

“Iernational cooperation in the northern width of today is having difficult days,” Putin added. A number of couries are moving along the way. “The mechanism of the Arctic Council has declined due to the election of today’s Western couries.”

“Dialogue with the West on cooperation in the Ecosystem in the North Pole is limited, Russia refuses to cooperate in the North Pole Council,” he said. NATO couries today look at the dista north as a launch platform for possible clashes. Russia will respond to the participation of Sweden and Finland in NATO activities.

The Russian preside emphasized: “Russia will not allow its sovereigy, it will protect its ierests.”

He also said, “Russia believes that if Western couries are ierested in doing so, joi projects can be done in the Arctic.”

“The stronger our positions, the more importa results are, the more opportunities for the launch of iernational iernational projects in the Arctic with the participation of friendly couries and possibly Western couries, if they are ierested in working together,” Putin said.

He stated that the time of such projects would definitely come, as the Arctic region has a huge prospect.

“These situations must be strengthened,” the Russian preside also said, referring to the coury’s largest freezing fleet in the world. “Russia has to launch new generation frozen, including nuclear ice.”

According to him, Russia needs its trade fleet to navigate along the North Sea route, including cargo, rescue ships.

Putin also said: “Belarus, China and the United Arab Emirates were ierested in developing the North Arctic transport infrastructure. “Russia is open for iernational cooperation in the construction of a commercial fleet in the Arctic.”

The Russian preside also cited US Preside Donald Trump’s remarks and his wishes to take over Greenland: “This may only surprise someone at first glance. But it is deeply wrong to believe that this is a lot of talk of the new American governme. Trump is serious. “In the long run, the United States is looking for Greenland and its annexation.”

“Obviously, the United States will coinue to promote its ierests in the Arctic,” he said.

The US preside recely said that the United States needs Greenland in iernational security and insisted that “we must have it.”

“We need Greenland for our security and iernational security,” Trump said in an ierview with the Ramble Video Sharing Platform. We need it. We have to have it.

“And this is an island that is what we need in terms of defense and even offensive, especially in the world with our curre situation,” he said.

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