[23 / 1 / 1]
Quoted By: >>1476961
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/greenland-mayor-says-fake-news-36539340
The mayor of Greenland’s capital city has admitted that she is now dreading the day that American warships appear on the horizon. Avaaraq Olsen said it is clear the fear felt among the 20,000 strong community of Nuuk is growing by the day.
The civic leader has issued a personal message to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is seeking to coordinate a NATO response to the growing crisis over Greenland by sending troops for a major security force to persuade Donald Trump that his US intervention is not necessary.
The mayor said: “Denmark or others make plans and announcements about Greenland - but they talk about us without us. So if Keir Starmer wants to plan anything like that, or even talk about it, he should definitely include the inhabitants of Greenland.”
Speaking in her office in Nuuk’s Civic Hall, Olsen points to the fjord that is visible from the window and says: “Yesterday I needed to take a walk, on the path we have on our coast line.
“There’s always this calming feeling when you listen to the ocean. I was standing myself and it was getting dark, and then a boat came and it was dark and it had no lights on.
“And suddenly I was wondering, will they (the US) come without the light? And even though I’ve been the one who’s telling everyone to keep calm I also understand that people are afraid.
“I really understand why people are looking towards the sky and the ocean for what might come.”
Olsen admits that she is normally circumspect in dealing with the media - but she has cast aside her caution due to the severity of the US threat. She claims that people have become distressed due to the “fake news” spread directly by Donald Trump and his top table team - led by son Donald Jnr, who visited Nuuk last January.
She said: “To Donald Trump I would say I don’t want him here. That would just show another way of disrespecting us if he came.
The mayor of Greenland’s capital city has admitted that she is now dreading the day that American warships appear on the horizon. Avaaraq Olsen said it is clear the fear felt among the 20,000 strong community of Nuuk is growing by the day.
The civic leader has issued a personal message to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is seeking to coordinate a NATO response to the growing crisis over Greenland by sending troops for a major security force to persuade Donald Trump that his US intervention is not necessary.
The mayor said: “Denmark or others make plans and announcements about Greenland - but they talk about us without us. So if Keir Starmer wants to plan anything like that, or even talk about it, he should definitely include the inhabitants of Greenland.”
Speaking in her office in Nuuk’s Civic Hall, Olsen points to the fjord that is visible from the window and says: “Yesterday I needed to take a walk, on the path we have on our coast line.
“There’s always this calming feeling when you listen to the ocean. I was standing myself and it was getting dark, and then a boat came and it was dark and it had no lights on.
“And suddenly I was wondering, will they (the US) come without the light? And even though I’ve been the one who’s telling everyone to keep calm I also understand that people are afraid.
“I really understand why people are looking towards the sky and the ocean for what might come.”
Olsen admits that she is normally circumspect in dealing with the media - but she has cast aside her caution due to the severity of the US threat. She claims that people have become distressed due to the “fake news” spread directly by Donald Trump and his top table team - led by son Donald Jnr, who visited Nuuk last January.
She said: “To Donald Trump I would say I don’t want him here. That would just show another way of disrespecting us if he came.
